Sara Steele
Freelance at Self-employed
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSara Steele is a machine learning specialist with 12 years of experience building end-to-end data products across e-commerce, travel, finance, and biological research, translating prototypes into production systems that have delivered multi-million-dollar impact. She combines hands-on ML engineering (Python, Spark, AWS, Sagemaker, Airflow) with data engineering and DevOps practices to scale pipelines that process tens of terabytes and thousands of searches per second. As a leader she has managed and mentored teams, standardized best practices, and driven cost-and-accuracy optimizations—e.g., replacing managed forecasting services with a DeepAR-based custom stack that cut costs 70% and improved accuracy 40%. Her recent freelance work includes fine-tuning LLMs with domain expert texts and providing cross-domain consulting in wellness, arts, and local business analytics. Rooted in a neuroscience background, she brings a distinctive focus on human motivation and perceptual modeling to product design and ML experimentation.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
New York UniversityBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Neuroscience and Behavior, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Neuroscience and Behavior at Columbia University in the City of New York
Russian, SpanishProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
steeles/WC_sequence
Feb 2015 - Nov 2018
my new FR sequence detector
Contributions:2 PRs, 34 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 9 months
sequencedetector
steeles/BrewUp
Mar 2022 - Feb 2023
BrewUp - macOS Auto Update Homebrew
Contributions:27 pushes in 10 months
macosupdatehomebrewauto-update
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