Steven Nicolaou
Founder & CEO at Thermo Fisher Scientific
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolSteven Nicolaou is a founder, CEO, and independent software engineer/data scientist with 11 years of focused experience building search, ML, and data-driven solutions from enterprise deployments to startup products. Based in Cambridge, MA, he founded LinearBee after a decade-plus career designing and implementing large-scale search and analytics systems at Microsoft, FAST, and as a consultant for major enterprises. He blends hands-on engineering (Python/C#), applied data science, and product leadership—helping organizations "do complex things well" by turning search and ML needs into robust production services. His background includes senior data science roles at Thermo Fisher and Toptal and an uncommon mix of technical depth plus entrepreneurship grounded in an MBA and formal music production study, suggesting creative approaches to signal, pattern, and user experience problems.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
MBA Entrepreneurship, MBA Entrepreneurship at Babson F.W. Olin Graduate School of BusinessProfessional Certificate Electronic Music Production and Sound Design, Professional Certificate Electronic Music Production and Sound Design at Berklee College of MusicDiploma Computer Science, Diploma Computer Science at Higher Technical Institute (HTI)BSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at Wentworth Institute of Technology
English, Greek, French, Chinese
Stackoverflow
1,903reputation
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pandas
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Github Skills (123)
parallel10
python10
tqdm10
telegram10
meter10
extensible10
pandas10
statistics10
argparse10
progress-bar10
eta10
cli10
jupyter10
data-science10
console10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
stevennic/whoosh
Dec 2018 - Dec 2020
Whoosh is a fast, featureful full-text indexing and searching library implemented in pure Python.
Contributions:24 pushes, 18 branches in 1 year 11 months
pythonwhooshfull-textindexingsearch-engine
stevennic/pandas
Jun 2019 - Sep 2020
Flexible and powerful data analysis / manipulation library for Python, providing labeled data structures similar to R data.frame objects, statistical functions, and much more
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 3 months
polarspythondatalabeled-datamanipulation
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