Keith Penrod
Staff Technical Lead 2, Machine Learning at Awardco
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolKeith Penrod is a Staff Technical Lead in Machine Learning with 11 years of technical experience and a deep academic foundation—a PhD in Mathematics—bridging rigorous theory with production ML systems. He has progressed from hands-on model engineering at Snap Finance to senior leadership at Awardco while also teaching practical data science at the University of Utah. Keith focuses on applying ML to high-impact domains like energy, healthcare, climate, and autonomous systems, favoring solutions that automate routine tasks so humans can tackle higher-level problems. His background as a college instructor and mathematician gives him an analytical edge in designing interpretable, well-tuned models and mentoring cross-functional teams. Based in Salt Lake City, he combines research-grade math intuition with pragmatic engineering to move experimental ideas into reliable production.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
MS Mathematics, MS Mathematics at Brigham Young UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Mathematics at University of Tennessee, Knoxville
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Github Skills (25)
discrete-mathematics10
hierarchical10
topology10
math10
topological-data-analysis10
database10
tunnel6
docker6
proxy6
vpn6
kubernetes5
openshift4
minikube4
operator4
k8s-operator3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
keithpenrod/data
Apr 2022 - May 2022
A community database of topological counterexamples
Contributions:2 PRs, 10 pushes, 3 branches in 18 days
dataminingtopologytopological-data-analysisdatabasephilosophy
pi-base/data
Nov 2014 - May 2022
A community database of topological counterexamples
Contributions:1 review, 79 commits, 2 PRs in 7 years 7 months
mathhierarchicaltopologytopological-data-analysisdiscrete-mathematics
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