Sam Kennerly
Machine Learning Engineer at DataStream Cyber Insurance
Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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Top SchoolSam Kennerly is a Machine Learning Engineer with 10 years of experience building full-pipeline data systems across startups, quant finance, and scientific research. He combines a PhD-level physics background and options-quant experience to design robust ETL, ML, and infrastructure-as-code solutions on AWS and GCP using Python, Docker, Pulumi/Terraform, and columnar data formats like Parquet and KDB+. Sam has a track record of productionizing custom models and radically improving data throughput and cost-efficiency—e.g., replacing a costly MongoDB workflow with partitioned column-oriented datasets and delivering a 100x query scaleup at minimal cost. He’s comfortable from sparse-matrix numerical algorithms and graph layouts to secure API integrations and Cloud Run deployments, and he publishes tooling and projects publicly (see his portfolio). Pragmatic and detail-oriented, he excels at automating repetitive tasks and shoring up data quality in messy real-world sources. Based in Chengdu, he brings research rigor plus startup speed to bridge models, pipelines, and operational reliability.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Master of Science (MS) Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Master of Science (MS) Physics at Drexel UniversityTheoretical Physics, Theoretical Physics at University of AmsterdamBachelor's degree Mathematics, Bachelor's degree Mathematics at Northwestern University
Dutch, German, English, Chinese
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Github Skills (63)
graph-layout10
python10
data-science10
pandas10
classifier10
manipulation10
frame10
levenshtein10
data-analysis10
google-sheets-api9
jaro-winkler9
matching9
string-matching9
dataframes9
data-manipulation9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
samkennerly/quarto
Sep 2019 - Apr 2020
Contributions:3 releases, 435 pushes, 2 branches in 7 months
samkennerly/blackbox
Nov 2019 - Dec 2023
Contributions:16 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 1 month
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