Preston Macdonald
Senior Data Scientist
Sanford, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolPreston Macdonald is a Senior Data Scientist who translates real-world grit—from a background as a firefighter—into pragmatic, high-impact AI and ML solutions. With over six years building end-to-end generative AI, deep learning, NLP, and reinforcement learning systems, he designs scalable, cloud-native workflows (notably on Databricks) and rapidly prototypes production-ready models. At Red Hat he progressed from Marketing Data Scientist to Senior Data Scientist, shaping AI strategy and aligning technical roadmaps with stakeholder needs. He combines strong presentation and cross-functional collaboration skills with hands-on model optimization to drive measurable business outcomes. Preston’s academic foundation in analytics and computational mathematics complements his applied focus, and his career path shows a persistent emphasis on impact-driven analytics across nonprofit and enterprise settings.
5 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Associates of Science, Associates of Science at Central Carolina Community CollegeMaster of Science - MS Analytics Analytics, Master of Science - MS Analytics Analytics at Institute for Advanced AnalyticsBachelor in Computational Mathematics Applied Mathematics, Bachelor in Computational Mathematics Applied Mathematics at Appalachian State UniversityAssociate of Arts - AA Computer Networking, Associate of Arts - AA Computer Networking at University of Phoenix
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Github Skills (29)
javascript10
open-source10
annotations7
inheritance6
java6
imagenet6
deep-learning5
audio5
image-classification5
buffer5
labeling4
computer-vision4
image-annotation-tool3
buffer-overflow3
time-series3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
prestonbridgers/BOV-demo
Feb 2022 - May 2022
A buffer overflow visualization tool designed for use by educators and students. This demo serves as a proof of concept for future work.
Contributions:35 commits, 7 PRs, 71 pushes in 3 months
buffer-overflowbufferserveseducatorsproof-of-concept
prestonbridgers/C_GoL
Jan 2021 - Oct 2022
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
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