Steven Rouk
AI Programs Director at Vegan Hacktivists
Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolSteven Rouk is an AI-focused technology leader and founder with a decade of experience building data-driven products and digital infrastructure for mission-driven organizations. As Founder & Executive Director of Connect For Animals and AI Programs Director at Vegan Hacktivists, he designs scalable platforms, automations, and training that grow people power for the farmed-animal movement. He led a 12-week generative AI training for 1,000+ advocates and routinely translates advanced AI capabilities into practical tools and workflows for non‑profits. Previously a data engineering consultant at Slalom and analytics specialist at Mercy For Animals, he combines rigorous math and data-science training with hands-on product development. Based in Virginia, he’s skilled at taking projects from prototype to production—often building the automations and team processes that make small organizations operate like tech-savvy enterprises. An unusual strength is his ability to teach and institutionalize AI practices across grassroots networks, not just deliver one-off solutions.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Mathematics, BS, Mathematics at Arizona State UniversityData Science Immersive g99, Data Science, Data Science Immersive g99, Data Science at Galvanize
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (62)
jupyter10
pandas-dataframe10
big-data-analytics10
jupyter-notebook10
javascript9
pandas9
data-quality9
eda9
python9
exploratory-data-analysis9
pandas-profiling9
statistics9
open-source9
profiling9
data-profiling9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
stevenrouk/evolution-of-machine-learning
Oct 2019 - Aug 2022
Using natural language processing techniques such as topic modeling to analyze the evolution of machine learning as a field, using ArXiv research paper descriptions as the dataset.
Contributions:13 PRs, 109 pushes, 16 branches in 2 years 10 months
evolutionlanguage-processingtopic-modelingnatural-language-processingdescriptions
stevenrouk/practice
Sep 2019 - Oct 2019
Contributions:33 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 28 days
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