Steven Boada
Senior Data Scientist, Gameplay
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven Boada is a PhD-trained astrophysicist turned senior data scientist with 11 years of experience applying machine learning and large-scale data engineering to real-world problems, currently shaping gameplay analytics at Activision. He has led cloud migrations and production ML workflows across AWS and GCP, built orchestration and model-tracking systems (Airflow, Jenkins, MLflow, Databricks, Kubernetes), and partners closely with stakeholders to turn insights into better game experiences. His academic work involved large, parallelized pipelines for multi-night astronomical imaging and coordinating teams to deliver peer-reviewed science—skills he now leverages to structure messy, high-volume product data. Known for pragmatic documentation and mentorship, he also has a track record of prototyping practical ML tools (e.g., a city-focused inspection prioritizer from his Insight fellowship), bringing research rigor to fast-moving product environments. Based in Boulder, Colorado, he combines curiosity-driven problem-solving with an appetite for impact on everyday user experiences.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Astrophysics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Astrophysics at Texas A&M UniversityMaster’s Degree Astrophysics, Master’s Degree Astrophysics at University of Tennessee, Knoxville
English
Github Skills (87)
galaxy9
astronomy9
nyc9
medium9
simulations8
qt8
python8
gtk8
power-systems8
pandas-dataframe8
tla8
cosmology8
stellar8
predict8
mass7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
boada/inspectorAI
Jan 2020 - Feb 2020
repo holding my insight project
Contributions:61 commits, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
data-scienceinsight-data-sciencenycnyc-opendatapython3
boada/CC_events
May 2019 - Nov 2020
Contributions:27 commits, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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