Steven Fines
Principal ML Architect at Cotality
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolSteven Fines is a Principal ML Architect based in San Diego with over 15 years of hands-on software experience and three decades in the industry, currently leading the design of an enterprise Generative AI platform at Cotality. He architects and implements production ML systems using Scala, Python, TensorFlow/TFX, Kubeflow Pipelines and Google Cloud, with a focus on applying LLMs to both structured and unstructured residential property data. His background blends senior software and systems design roles across fintech, transportation, healthcare and cybersecurity, giving him deep experience in large-scale data processing, integration and operationalization. Steven pairs technical leadership with practical delivery—having led cross-functional and distributed teams, driven POCs, and transitioned models into resilient pipelines. He holds an MS in Data Science and brings a rare combination of long-term architectural perspective and current, hands-on ML platform engineering.
15 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Finance, Finance at Avila CollegeMasters of Science Data Science, Masters of Science Data Science at Elmhurst UniversityUniversity of KansasBBA Finance, BBA Finance at National UniversityUniversity of Central Missouri
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Github contributions (5)
sfines/dotfiles-1
Jan 2019 - Mar 2022
Contributions:2 pushes in 3 years 2 months
sfines/box_build_scripts
Jan 2019 - Mar 2022
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
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