Koba Khitalishvili
Senior AI ML Engineer at National Basketball Association (NBA)
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolKoba Khitalishvili is a Senior AI/ML Engineer based in New York with 12 years of experience applying data science and engineering to sports and marketing technology. He combines a strong mathematical-economics foundation with hands-on expertise across R, Python, SQL, Spark, AWS/GCP, FastAPI and modern GenAI toolchains (LLMs, Hugging Face, OpenAI, Claude) to move models from research into production. At the NBA he progressed from Senior Data Scientist to Senior AI/ML Engineer, delivering analytics and ML systems that inform fan engagement and business decisions. Past roles at Verisk, Jornaya and major sports franchises reflect deep domain knowledge in customer analytics, CRM integrations and scalable data stacks. He brings a product-minded approach—love of building ML apps and shipping reproducible pipelines—tempered by academic rigor from Drexel’s analytics and economics programs.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Economics with concentration in Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Economics with concentration in Mathematics at Drexel UniversityMaster of Business Analytics Statistics Informations Systems, Master of Business Analytics Statistics Informations Systems at Drexel University's LeBow College of Business
English, German, Russian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
crossfilter10
charting10
js-charts10
mastodon10
plotly10
d3js10
docker10
visualization10
signal-processing9
htmlwidgets9
instagram-api9
genetic9
pixelfed9
activitypub9
audio9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
KobaKhit/enron-network-using-mapreduce-and-R
Jun 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:30 commits, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
KobaKhit/kobakhit.github.io
Feb 2016 - May 2022
My attempt at making a personal blog aware website using jekyll.
Contributions:114 commits, 211 pushes in 6 years 3 months
jekyllblog-aware
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