Nelson Auner
Data & AI
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNelson Auner is a data and AI leader with 12 years of experience building ML-driven systems for financial services and e-commerce, currently heading Data & AI at Augment in San Francisco. He founded Coalition’s data science function and has hands-on startup and consulting experience deploying LLM/RAG, fine-tuning, and production GenAI systems for compliance, customer support, and risk/AML use cases. A former Affirm data scientist, Nelson blends rigorous statistical training from the University of Chicago with product-minded engineering—shipping fraud models, pricing engines, and large-scale data pipelines. He also co-founded a climate- and money-saving home-improvement startup, showing an appetite for mission-driven productization of analytics. Known for turning academic-level modeling into operational systems, he often bridges research, security, and human-in-the-loop review workflows.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange student Computer Science, Exchange student Computer Science at Sunrin Internet High SchoolMaster's Degree Statistics, Master's Degree Statistics at University of Chicago
Spanish, Korean
Stackoverflow
1,471reputation
69kreached
15answers
6questions
Github Skills (175)
multilabel-classification10
python10
operation10
annotations10
energy10
datasets10
data-cleaning10
command-line-tool10
outlier-detection10
openai-api10
labeling10
data-validation10
electricity10
chatgpt10
dataops10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
nelsonauner/nelsonauner.github.io
Dec 2013 - Aug 2022
Contributions:197 commits, 154 pushes, 3 branches in 8 years 8 months
nelsonauner/rgraphicsgallery
Feb 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:4 PRs, 63 pushes, 3 branches in 2 months
gallerygraphics
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