Phil Wertheimer
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Upstart
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPhil Wertheimer is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer in New York with nine years of experience building scalable ML platforms and production pipelines. With a Ph.D. background in probability, stochastic processes, and cryptographic applications, he bridges rigorous theory and pragmatic engineering to optimize runtime, scalability, and cost for model training workflows. He has led ML engineering at startups and portfolio companies—designing custom platforms, ETL and deployment pipelines, and observability tools—and currently focuses on ML platform infrastructure at Upstart. Phil combines hands-on expertise across Python, GKE, AWS, and Terraform with operational security experience (led a SOC2 audit) and a track record of shipping revenue-driving products from his earlier healthcare web-app startup.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mathematics at University of Maryland
Github Skills (72)
ibm-cloud10
tencent9
distributed-computing9
google-cloud9
aws9
openstack9
azure8
pipeline8
sql8
digitalocean8
javascript8
google-cloud-platform8
postgresql8
sqlite8
microsoft-sql-server8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ghostcreative/ghost-email-service
Jan 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes, 3 branches in 10 months
pwerth/dask-cloudprovider
May 2022 - Aug 2022
Cloud provider cluster managers for Dask. Supports AWS, Google Cloud Azure and more...
Contributions:25 pushes, 8 branches in 2 months
gcpcost-optimizationprovidermanagersgoogle-cloud-platform
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