Josh Vaughen
Self Employed
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoshua Vaughen is a seasoned machine learning and data science leader with 11 years of engineering experience and a 7+ year track record of shipping production ML systems at scale, notably across Adobe’s Document Cloud and 3D & Immersive teams. He designed and deployed latent-variable onboarding models, churn prediction with XGBoost, large-scale Apriori improvements, and a containerized data-engineering platform that personalized millions of in-product and email experiences. A pragmatic technical manager, he’s hired and mentored junior engineers while standardizing shared Python libraries, data models, and KPI frameworks adopted organization-wide. After a life-changing medical event he spent a sabbatical traveling to nearly 60 countries, gaining conversational fluency in two languages—an experience that sharpened his adaptability, cross-cultural communication, and rapid problem-solving under uncertainty.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering at University of California, DavisComputer Engineering, Computer Engineering at University of California, RiversideUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Github Skills (9)
sms9
authentication9
ruby8
security8
google-sheet8
hardware8
auth7
e-mail7
selenium4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jshvn/dotfiles
May 2024 - Jul 2026
Contributions:2 PRs, 142 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 2 months
jshvn/ijosh.com
May 2024 - Jun 2026
Contributions:1 PR, 28 pushes in 2 years 1 month
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