Michael Becker
Lead Machine Learning Engineer at Penn Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Health System
Greater Philadelphia United States
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Top SchoolMichael Becker is a Lead Machine Learning Engineer with 13+ years building predictive systems and production ML at Penn Medicine, where he’s led projects from sepsis early warning and transplant survival models to a GPT-4 prompt-optimization pipeline and a hospital-capacity planning tool used globally. He blends deep engineering (Python, C++, distributed systems, MapReduce/Hadoop) with applied data science—NLP, time series, and clinical EHR modeling—to deliver HIPAA-compliant, clinician-facing solutions. Founder of the 6,000-member DataPhilly meetup, he pairs public speaking and community leadership with hands-on delivery, mentoring teams and shipping scalable services. An active contributor to prominent open-source projects like psf/requests (test automation), he brings a pragmatic QA mindset that improves reliability in production. Known for turning complex clinical and business problems into elegant, automated workflows, he combines polymath curiosity with disciplined engineering and measurable impact.
13 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at Drexel UniversityGovernor Thomas Johnson High School
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Github Skills (20)
pytest10
python10
testing10
http-request10
cookie10
http9
jupyter-notebook9
unit-test8
unit-testing8
clientside7
webclient7
onehot-encoding6
regression6
google-chrome6
scikit-learn6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
psf/requests
Dec 2013 - Dec 2013
A simple, yet elegant, HTTP library.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:6 commits in 4 days
Contributions summary:Michael primarily focused on adding and modifying tests for the `requests` library, specifically around cookie handling and expiration. They added new test cases, fixed bugs in existing tests, and refactored tests to use py.test style. The contributions aimed to improve the library's reliability and ensure correct behavior regarding cookies.
pythonforhumansrequestspython-requestscookies
mdbecker/pydata_2013
Jul 2013 - Jan 2014
Contributions:7 commits in 5 months
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