Steve Draper
Senior Data Scientist
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolSteve Draper is a Senior Data Scientist in Austin with nine years focused on machine learning and a decades-long software engineering pedigree stretching back to systems work at IBM and Novell. He combines deep expertise in NLP and structured-data modeling—recently building reading-error models from children's audio at Amira Learning—with strong foundations in deep learning, optimization, and functional programming. Steve has translated research on fairness, explainability, and latent-space analysis into production at CognitiveScale, pairing PyTorch models with genetic-algorithm and autoencoder-driven investigations. Comfortable across the stack, he has hands-on experience designing inference engines, streaming pipelines (including Haskell-based processing), and scalable microservices in Scala. His background as a co-founder and architect of an incremental replication system shows a rare mix of low-level distributed-systems craftsmanship and modern ML product delivery.
9 years of coding experience
34 years of employment as a software developer
CourseraBachelor's Degree, Mathematics, 2i, Bachelor's Degree, Mathematics, 2i at University of Cambridge
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Github Skills (81)
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
SteveDraper/rl_book
Jul 2019 - Aug 2019
Contributions:8 commits in 24 days
CognitiveScale/cortex-certifai-examples
May 2020 - Mar 2021
Contributions:31 reviews, 38 commits, 20 PRs in 9 months
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