Luke Persola
Chief Technology Officer at various
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLuke Persola is a pragmatic technology leader and CTO with a decade of experience building data-driven systems and engineering teams, currently based in San Francisco. He blends software engineering and applied data science, with hands-on experience in ML/NLP projects—semantic search, vectorization, and production ETLs—and a track record of improving pipeline reliability and latency. As an independent consultant and former Data Science Fellow, he moves comfortably between prototyping research-grade models and implementing robust backend services and job orchestration at scale. Early roles grounding him in full-stack Rails and microservices inform a practical, product-focused approach to deploying ML into production. He’s especially effective at turning messy, large datasets into actionable features and metrics, and he actively seeks roles in data science or ML engineering where he can bridge research and production.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Great Valley High SchoolBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Anthropology, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Anthropology at Penn State UniversityApp Academy
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (63)
mvc10
rails10
ruby10
html10
activerecord10
ruby-on-rails10
javascript9
eslint9
statistics9
linter9
language-server9
ecmascript9
python8
machine-learning8
browserslist8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Persola/lukepersola.com
Feb 2018 - Jan 2023
Contributions:18 pushes in 4 years 11 months
Persola/visualize-generalized-means
May 2019 - Dec 2022
Notebook used to generate images for article 'Visualing the Geometric and Harmonic Means'
Contributions:11 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 7 months
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