Jonathan Bechtel
Lead AI Engineer at Pearl
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJonathan Bechtel is a Lead AI Engineer in New York with 11 years of experience building data-driven products, infrastructure, and teams across EdTech, finance, and consulting. He blends hands-on machine learning and data engineering with product leadership—having managed 17 people and defined roadmaps that translate C-suite goals into sprint-level deliverables. He has led deployments of ML models and data platforms on AWS, driven release and QA practices, and helped commercialize LLM-powered CoPilot services for personalized education. An active open-source contributor and sktime Community Council member, he has improved time-series ML documentation and added datasets to a widely used library. Trained at Georgia Tech, he pairs rigorous analytics training with practical experience turning complex data into operational business value.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Analytics, Master of Science - MS Analytics at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelors of Science Nutrition, Bachelors of Science Nutrition at The Ohio State University
English
Stackoverflow
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6answers
166questions
Github Skills (17)
python10
time-series10
documentation10
scikit9
scikit-learn9
forecast8
forecasting8
machine-learning8
data-science8
numpy7
angular-http6
google-visualization6
angularjs6
data-mining6
ajax6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
sktime/sktime
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
A unified framework for machine learning with time series
Role in this project:
Data Scientist & Technical Writer
Data Scientist & Technical WriterContributions:1 commit, 9 PRs, 36 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Jonathan primarily contributed to the documentation of the `sktime` library, adding examples and missing import statements to docstrings. They updated docstrings for various distance functions, the `ColumnConcatenator` transformer, and the `temporal_train_test_split` function, making them more user-friendly. In addition, the user added the Tecator dataset to the repository for time series regression, showcasing their work with datasets.
forecastingtime-series-analysistime-series-regressiondata-sciencedeep-learning
JonathanBechtel/dat-11-15
Nov 2021 - Feb 2022
Official Class Github Repo General Assembly's Part Time Data Science Class, starting at 11-15
Contributions:48 PRs, 103 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
pythonsciencedata-scienceedxscientific-computing
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