Matt Goldberg
Director, Basketball Analytics at Genius Sports
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Goldberg is a director-level analytics and machine learning leader specializing in professional basketball data, currently leading Basketball Analytics at Genius Sports after rising through senior ML roles. A Harvard CS and Statistics graduate (magna cum laude, ’17) with 12 years of industry experience, he blends deep modeling expertise with hands-on infrastructure and DevOps skills honed at Second Spectrum and in-house platform rotations. He has built production ML systems that power the NBA and its teams—identifying events, measuring on-court actions, and delivering scalable analytics pipelines. Comfortable across the stack, he pairs research-grade techniques (TensorFlow, Spark) with cloud-native tooling (Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS) to move models from prototype to production. Colleagues rely on him for translating complex sports science and tracking data into actionable product metrics and competitive advantage.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science and Statistics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science and Statistics at Harvard University
English
Github Skills (85)
dependency-management10
python10
scrapy10
sports-data10
packaging10
scraper10
pandas9
python-packaging9
formatter9
statistics9
pytorch9
manipulation9
machine-learning9
frame9
data-science9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mdgoldberg/power_rankings
Oct 2017 - Dec 2022
Code for generating power rankings (based on all-win %) for a fantasy football league
Contributions:12 commits, 2 PRs, 20 pushes in 5 years 3 months
footballleaguerankingspowerfantasy
mdgoldberg/dotfiles
Aug 2015 - Sep 2024
Contributions:353 pushes, 5 branches in 9 years 3 months
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