Samantha Zeitlin
Founder And Director at Tribe AI
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolSamantha Zeitlin is a founder and technical leader with 12+ years blending scientific rigor and production machine learning, currently running Radically Different Data Science and leading engineering at Tribe AI. A PhD-trained biochemist turned self-taught Pythonista, she specializes in making the invisible visible through analytics, ML, and scalable data infrastructure (favorites: Pandas, Seaborn, Neo4j, Pachyderm). Her background spans hands-on research, product engineering, and managing data teams at companies like Elastic and Sentry, plus volunteer work with U.S. Digital Response. She consults across technical design, developer relations, hiring, and career mentoring, bringing both deep domain knowledge and practical delivery. Recent work includes cloud-native tooling such as Google Pub/Sub, BigQuery, Kubernetes, and Pachyderm, reflecting a focus on reproducible, production ML pipelines. Unusually for someone with her academic pedigree, she emphasizes pragmatic engineering over bioinformatics, pairing published research with production-grade code.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
CourseraUdacityself-taught python, self-taught python at way too much schoolPhD Molecular and Cellular Structure and Chemistry, PhD Molecular and Cellular Structure and Chemistry at Scripps ResearchThomas Jefferson High School for Science and TechnologyBA Biochemistry, BA Biochemistry at University of PennsylvaniaStanford Open EdX
French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
opensearch10
data-manipulation10
datasets10
automation10
client-library10
vagrant10
data-science10
apm10
filesystem10
restful10
crash-reports10
notebook10
python10
ipython10
ruby10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
jupyter/nbindex
Apr 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:21 commits, 21 pushes in 1 month
szeitlin/python-practice
Jan 2014 - Jun 2015
Contributions:37 commits, 24 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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