Troy Xiao
Principal Associate, Data Science
McLean, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTroy Xiao is a Principal Associate in Data Science with eight years of experience applying machine learning and cloud engineering to production problems, currently driving data initiatives at Capital One in McLean, VA. He has a strong Python-first approach and a track record building end-to-end computer vision solutions—taking a sewer pipeline defect detection system from POC to commercialization while designing custom evaluation metrics and automating large-scale annotation workflows. Troy combines hands-on model development (YOLO, CNNs) with cloud-savvy deployment and integrations on AWS and Azure, including building APIs and automating data pipelines. His background blends an MS in Computer Science from Georgetown with a BS in Math & CS from UC San Diego, reflecting solid theoretical grounding alongside practical product delivery. Notably, he has led cross-functional teams and scaled annotation and inference infrastructure to process 20,000+ videos, a detail that highlights his focus on operationalizing ML, not just prototyping.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Georgetown UniversityUniversity of California, San Diego
Chinese, English
Github Skills (3)
python4
machine-learning4
kaggle4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
troyxiao/Plant_Seedlings_Classification
Nov 2018 - Dec 2018
Kaggle Competition Project as well as ANLY 590 Final Project. Task: Determine the species of a seedling from an image
Contributions:14 PRs, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
kagglepythonseedlingmachine-learningcompetition-project
troyxiao/ChatBot
Apr 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:6 PRs, 32 pushes, 1 branch in 12 days
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