Prema Roman is a Director of Engineering based in Virginia with 11 years of experience building data-intensive, distributed systems and machine learning platforms. She has progressed from analytics and data engineering roles into leadership positions across financial services and consulting, most recently leading engineering at Rotational after heading ML and principal data engineering efforts at Navy Federal. Hands-on background includes senior software engineering and data engineering at Tick Data and Excella, and she teaches practical ML and engineering topics as an adjunct lecturer at Georgetown University. An active contributor to open-source ML tooling, she implemented visualizers and model-diagnostic features for the popular yellowbrick project, blending data science intuition with production engineering. Known for turning complex analytical requirements into maintainable pipelines, she brings both technical depth and cross-functional leadership to scale ML systems in regulated environments.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Management Information Systems, Marketing, BS, Management Information Systems, Marketing at George Mason University
Visual analysis and diagnostic tools to facilitate machine learning model selection.
Role in this project:
Data Scientist
Contributions:2 reviews, 25 commits, 65 PRs in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Prema contributed extensively to the `yellowbrick` repository, primarily focusing on creating and integrating visualizers for machine learning tasks. Their work involved implementing visualizations for feature analysis, model selection, and evaluation. Key contributions include the development of a Feature Visualizer, JointPlotVisualizer, and CVScores visualizer, along with various tests and documentation updates for these and other visualizers.
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Prema Roman - Director Of Engineering at Georgetown University