Xavier Capdepon
Senior Data Scientist
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolXavier Capdepon is a Senior Data Scientist in New York with 11+ years blending quantitative finance, applied mathematics and production machine learning across trading desks, startups and enterprise products. He’s a Kaggle Competitions Master (solo Gold, top ~120 in 2020) who pairs contest-grade time-series and forecasting expertise with hands-on prototyping and deployment experience in Python, Spark and AWS. His background as a structurer/trader at Guggenheim and other banks informs pragmatic risk-aware modeling—he’s automated reconciliation and reduced operational effort by 90% in prior roles. Xavier has led ML teams and built production systems across retail, energy and advertising (including in-store checkout computer vision and ad-impression analytics for LinkNYC). Comfortable briefing C-level audiences and teaching technical teams, he balances deep algorithmic work with clear communication. An under-the-radar strength is his track record of turning financial domain complexity into robust engineering prototypes that scale to business needs.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Master of Science (M.Sc.) at Ecole des Ingénieurs de la Ville de ParisNYC Data Science AcademyMS Finance (Corporate Finance track), MS Finance (Corporate Finance track) at EM Lyon
English, French
Github Skills (42)
pytorch10
python10
data-science10
machine-learning10
deep-learning10
yolov59
tensorflow9
jax9
object-detection9
coreml8
onnx8
ios8
tflite8
neural-network8
r-package8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
chabir/kaggle_materials
Jul 2018 - May 2023
Contributions:33 pushes in 4 years 10 months
chabir/chabir.github.io
Jun 2015 - Dec 2018
Contributions:32 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 6 months
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