Rita Pickard
Machine Learning Engineer at Various DeFi projects
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolRita Pickard is a Machine Learning Engineer with 14 years of experience blending NLP, ML, and functional/logic programming to build robust data-driven systems. Based in San Francisco, she combines deep expertise in Clojure, Python, and Prolog with big-data tooling like Hadoop and Spark, and has extended her technical reach into Solidity and web3 as a technical lead on multiple DeFi projects. She has significant hands-on contractor experience since 2019 and a background founding and leading a data analytics startup, giving her both product instincts and implementation discipline. Her academic foundation in cognitive science (BSc/MSc) informs a thoughtful approach to language-centered models and human-aligned ML. Colleagues rely on her for bridging research-grade reasoning techniques with production engineering, particularly when projects demand declarative or functional solutions.
14 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Cognitive Science, BSc, Cognitive Science at Universität Osnabrück
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Github Skills (35)
solidity10
usedapp10
trading9
ethereum9
react9
cryptocurrency9
smart-contracts9
blockchain8
codemod8
typescript7
rapid7
mochiweb6
database6
database-design6
erlang6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
MoreMoney-Finance/contracts
Sep 2021 - Dec 2022
Core contracts related to the Moremoney protocol
Contributions:3 reviews, 430 commits, 53 PRs in 1 year 3 months
ethereumblockchainsoliditysmart-contractscontracts
marginswap/marginswap-interface
Jan 2021 - Dec 2021
The marginswap trading UI
Contributions:373 commits, 31 PRs, 39 pushes in 10 months
ethereumreactcryptocurrencytrading
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