Sam Hopkins
Co-Founder And Instructor at Lisbon Data Science Academy
Lisbon, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Hopkins is a Lisbon-based co-founder, instructor, and full-stack data scientist with 12 years building product-focused ML and engineering solutions across startups and education. He co-founded Lisbon Data Science Academy, designed its curriculum and mission, and still spends roughly 30% of his time teaching—helping certify and place entry-level data scientists. As a former CTO and senior engineer he has shipped production integrations and ML-driven lending prototypes that supported multi-million dollar fundraising and international client expansion. Sam blends hands-on implementation (from backend services to NLP and tooling) with rapid execution for clients through his data engineering consultancy, and he has a track record of turning complex technical systems into tangible business value.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at University of New Mexico School of Engineering
English
Github Skills (159)
categorical10
flask10
herokuapp10
mlflow9
statistics9
ai9
apache-spark9
python9
model-management9
heroku-deployment9
sklearn9
lifecycle9
machine-learning9
incremental-learning9
react9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Daltix/snowconn
Nov 2018 - Jun 2020
Python connection utilities for the Snowflake Data warehouse
Contributions:1 review, 92 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year 6 months
datawarehousepythonwarehousesqlconnection
LDSSA/heroku-model-deploy
Aug 2018 - Jan 2020
Deploy a scikit model using heroku and Flask
Contributions:2 releases, 29 commits, 5 PRs in 1 year 5 months
herokupythondeploymentflaskmachine-learning
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