Nick Brown
Lead Engineer at Next Net
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Brown is a Lead Engineer and data/ML practitioner with a decade of experience building production data platforms and models using Python, PySpark, Databricks, Kafka and AWS. He combines a solid academic background in statistics and probabilistic forecasting with hands-on work deploying MLflow-registered models, Delta Lake pipelines, and real-time streaming solutions for manufacturing, finance and energy domains. Nick has driven cost-saving ELT and governance improvements in Databricks lakehouses and implemented AWS CDK microservices and event-driven ETL at enterprise scale. His early research on LSTM-based classification and power systems analytics informs practical approaches to forecasting, DER participation, and risk assessment for asset portfolios. Comfortable both consulting and leading engineering teams, he often bridges data science and platform engineering to ship reproducible, monitored ML systems. Based in Somerville, MA, he brings uncommon domain depth in power markets and programmatic advertising alongside strong cloud-native engineering chops.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State UniversityBA Economics, BA Economics at Rutgers University
Github Skills (129)
python10
pyspark10
prediction10
pinning10
dvc10
anaconda10
visualization10
matplotlib10
lifecycle10
visualizer10
machine-learning10
scikit-learn10
architecture9
pandas9
mlflow9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
nickpowersys/yellowbrick
Apr 2019 - Feb 2025
Visual analysis and diagnostic tools to facilitate machine learning model selection.
Contributions:524 pushes, 37 branches in 5 years 11 months
pythonvisual-analysismodel-selectionmachine-learningdiagnostic
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