Michelangelo D'agostino
VP Of Machine Learning at Grainger
Greater Chicago Area United States
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Top SchoolMichelangelo D'agostino is a VP of Machine Learning with 13 years of experience translating physics-trained analytical rigor into high-impact AI products across finance, e-commerce, and enterprise. He has built ML functions from the ground up and led teams through multiple acquisitions (ShopRunner to FedEx, Tegus to AlphaSense), shipping production NLP/LLM features like generative summaries and the widely praised AskTegus chatbot. A former Obama 2012 analytics team member and postdoc physicist, he combines deep technical leadership with hands-on model and data engineering experience at companies including Grainger, Cameo, Civis, Braintree/Venmo, and Tegus. He also teaches and writes about data science, bringing clarity to complex topics for technical and non-technical audiences. Known for turning messy, real-world data into reliable ML systems, he favors pragmatic, production-first approaches to NLP, CV, and recommendation problems.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Physics, PhD Physics at University of California, BerkeleyAB Physics, AB Physics at Harvard University
Italian, Latin, Greek
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (169)
dependency-management10
apache-spark10
parallel10
python10
command-line-interface10
model-management10
hadoop10
hyperparameter-optimization10
deep-learning10
automl10
database-management10
ray10
optimization10
r10
pandas10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ShopRunner/jupyter-notify
Jun 2017 - Apr 2018
A Jupyter Notebook magic for browser notifications of cell completion
Contributions:4 releases, 16 commits, 29 PRs in 10 months
browser-notificationsbrowserjupyter-notebookmagicnotebook
mdagost/pug_classifier
Mar 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:10 commits, 34 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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