Nelson Griffiths
Senior Data Engineer
Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area United States
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Top SchoolNelson Griffiths is a Head of Engineering & ML with seven years of experience building end-to-end ML and trading systems, currently leading engineering and research infrastructure at a quantitative hedge firm in the Twin Cities. He blends software development, data engineering, and applied ML to move projects from exploration to production—designing data pipelines, feature stores, model registries, backtesting and automated trading systems. Nelson pairs hands-on implementation (including Rust improvements and internal Python tooling) with product ownership across data, trading, and ML teams to accelerate researcher productivity. His background in economics and a CS master’s shapes a pragmatic approach to model-driven decision making, and he has a track record of turning manual workflows into fully automated production strategies.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science - BS, Economics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Economics at Brigham Young University
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Github Skills (52)
static-analysis10
python10
dataframes10
panel-data10
automation10
pipeline10
linter10
data-science9
data-engineering9
ruff9
dataflow9
prefect9
feature-extraction9
reactive9
artificial-intelligence9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ngriffiths13/Applied_Machine_Learning_Classwork
Sep 2018 - Dec 2018
Homeworks and Projects from Applied Machine Learning class at BYU
Contributions:62 commits, 3 PRs, 54 pushes in 3 months
machine-learning
ngriffiths13/polars-trading
Apr 2024 - Sep 2025
A collection of helpful polars plugins and functions for market data processing.
Contributions:19 PRs, 46 pushes, 18 branches in 1 year 5 months
polars
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