Paul Fornia
Senior Software Engineer - Machine Learning at Meta
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolPaul Fornia is a Senior Software Engineer specializing in machine learning with 11 years of experience building AI/ML systems at scale that prioritize measurable business impact. He has progressed from research roles at the Federal Reserve to data science and consulting at Deloitte and DataRobot, to developing production ML and trading strategies as Director of Data Science before joining Meta's ML engineering team. Paul blends strong quantitative training (BS in Applied Mathematics and Economics, graduate work in financial math, MS in Computer Science) with hands-on experience in end-to-end pipelines, model validation, and deployment. He has a track record of translating complex research and analytics into deployable systems and profitable decisions—most notably a novel ML-driven trading strategy—and thrives on aligning technical rigor with real-world value. Based in Denver, he brings both public-sector and high-scale consumer-tech perspectives to machine learning engineering.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityGraduate Certificate in Financial Mathematics, Graduate Certificate in Financial Mathematics at The George Washington UniversityBS BA Applied Mathematics Economics, BS BA Applied Mathematics Economics at University of Colorado Boulder
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (33)
feature-extraction9
dtw9
extraction9
shap8
shapley7
feature-engineering7
gradient-boosting7
machine-learning7
deep-learning7
discord-py6
amazon-s36
time-series6
pyspark6
indexing6
python6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
pfornia/pfornia.github.io
May 2019 - Jan 2025
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 5 years 9 months
pfornia/portfolio_wrapper
Sep 2017 - Jan 2025
Contributions:34 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 5 months
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