Robert Polski
Data Scientist
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Polski is a Director of Computational Services and data scientist with a PhD in Applied Physics and eight years of experience turning messy, terabyte-to-petabyte datasets into reliable, production-ready systems. He blends fundamentals-first engineering, experimental rigor from lab science, and human-centered problem solving to reduce complexity and operational costs—recently delivering >90% processing cost savings and measurable product stability improvements for geospatial pipelines. Comfortable across cloud, data management, and ML design, he builds scalable data pipelines and instrumentation that enable near-continuous measurement and insight. Known for bridging technical and nontechnical stakeholders, he prioritizes solving interpersonal and structural bottlenecks before applying technical fixes. Based in Salt Lake City, he brings a rare mix of hands-on experimental device expertise and product-focused data engineering that accelerates deployment of analytical capabilities.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
California Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science - BS, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, Math, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, Math at Andrews University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
threaded8
pep8
packaging8
dataframes8
dataframe8
python8
polars8
rust7
apache-arrow6
package-manager6
anaconda6
macos6
ipython6
matplotlib6
hybrid5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
RMpolski/nplab_drivers
Jan 2018 - Jan 2022
Contributions:262 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
RMpolski/Divvy-Rideshare-Analysis
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
Contributions:24 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
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