Sam Zuckerman
Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase
New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolSam Zuckerman is a Lead Software Engineer with nearly a decade of experience building data-first systems and AI/ML infrastructure across finance, media, and e-commerce. He combines deep analytics expertise (Masters in Statistics, strong SQL/Python skills) with production-grade engineering in Java, Scala/Spark, and cloud-native AWS tooling to ship reliable pipelines and royalty/reporting systems. At JPMorgan he’s focused on secure, compliant AI infrastructure and observability for large-scale model fine-tuning, after leading product-matching ML work and serverless data platforms at Hearst and Audible. Sam contributes to open-source data-cleaning tooling—adding pragmatic features and quality improvements to the pyjanitor project—showing a practical bent for improving developer ergonomics. He’s as comfortable investigating fraud/anomalies and statistical models as he is building APIs, CI/CD, and monitoring for regulated environments. Based in New Jersey, he blends strong academic training in applied math and data mining with a track record of turning complex business rules into auditable, scalable systems.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Applied Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Applied Mathematics at Brown UniversityMaster’s Degree, Statistics with an option in Data Mining, Master’s Degree, Statistics with an option in Data Mining at Rutgers University
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data-cleaning10
python10
pytest9
testing9
data-engineering9
api-design8
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junit6
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
pyjanitor-devs/pyjanitor
Oct 2018 - Apr 2019
Clean APIs for data cleaning. Python implementation of R package Janitor
Role in this project:
Data Engineer & Backend Developer
Data Engineer & Backend DeveloperContributions:55 commits, 15 PRs, 3 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Sam primarily contributed to the functionality of the `pyjanitor` library by implementing a new feature, `limit_column_characters`, which truncates column sizes. They also added the user, `szuckerman`, to the `AUTHORS.rst` file and ensured code quality by running `black` on the Python files. Further commits include fixing the `add_column` method to avoid overwriting data and improving code maintainability.
cleaningr-packagepythondatadata-science
szuckerman/szuckerman.github.io-src
Oct 2018 - Mar 2025
Contributions:31 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 5 months
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