Michael Tompkins
Head Of Data
Houston, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Tompkins is a data and AI leader with 11 years of experience building platforms that turn large-scale data into better product experiences. Currently Head of Data at SmartAC.com, he previously ran Data & AI Platforms at Faire and led data science and ML platform teams at Chime, Roofstock, NerdWallet, and Circle. He specializes in end-to-end data infrastructure—streaming, batch, feature stores, inference serving, and LLM fine-tuning—coupled with a track record of delivering measurable business impact like multimillion-dollar fraud prevention and large lifts in user engagement. A PhD-trained computational geophysicist, he brings deep quantitative rigor and a history of founding startups and research initiatives that bridge R&D and production. Known for scaling organizations (growing teams from single digits to 40+), he blends strategic roadmap-setting with hands-on platform engineering. Based in Houston, he quietly favors elegant system design and pragmatic ML solutions that directly improve product metrics.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Engineering (Computational Electromagnetics & Geophysics), PhD, Engineering (Computational Electromagnetics & Geophysics) at University of Wisconsin-MadisonBachelors, Bachelors at Ohio University
Github Skills (8)
pmml4
converting4
data-science2
scikit2
machine-learning2
python2
particle1
scikit-learn1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
geofizx/Sparse-Grid-Interpolation
Jun 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:4 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
geofizx/Streaming-Naive-Bayes
Jun 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:5 commits, 8 pushes in 1 day
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