Kevin Safford
Head Of Data Science
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Safford is a Head of Data Science with 11 years of experience turning complex data problems into business value across supply chain, retail, and B2B SaaS. He has led teams from hands-on model building to production ML and AI systems—specializing in supply chain optimization, process automation, marketing lead scoring, CLV, and sales forecasting. Kevin blends deep technical roots in physics and large-scale machine learning with senior leadership roles (including co‑founder/CTO and chief data scientist) to align engineering, product, and operations toward measurable outcomes. He favors human-centered technology and consensus-driven teams, believing the best systems come from happy people who understand user workflows. Based in Austin, he has a track record of deploying real-time decision automation for warehouses and designing end-to-end pipelines that move research-grade methods into production.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Thesis Physics, Masters Thesis Physics at Clark UniversityBS Physics, BS Physics at The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (76)
vim10
emacs10
baduk10
mlflow9
emacs-lsp9
melpa9
client-library9
ai9
apache-spark9
language-server-protocol9
model-management9
spacemacs9
lifecycle9
mermaid9
google-cast9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ksafford/bannedit
Jul 2020 - Apr 2022
Emacs minor mode to highlight words from a 'banned words' list.
Contributions:33 commits, 6 PRs, 27 pushes in 1 year 9 months
highlightorg-modeemacswordsemacs-lisp
mankyd/swn
Aug 2019 - Jun 2023
Somewhat Weekly Nomic
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 branch in 3 years 11 months
kebab-caseuser-guidephoneticscrosswordmod-manager
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