Zac Yauney
Entrepreneur at Self-employed
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZac Yauney is an entrepreneur and software engineer with a decade of programming experience who builds tools that turn complex research into searchable, actionable knowledge. With a strong foundation in computational and applied mathematics (MS, 4.0) and hands-on industry experience as a full-stack developer and data scientist, he blends Python and Clojure expertise with production ML deployment on Databricks. He created thinky.dev to help researchers catalog and mine paper contents, drawing on prior work optimizing CRM systems and building XGBoost models that lowered acquisition costs and surfaced high-potential leaders from large multinational pools. Comfortable across the stack and fluent in both the math and engineering sides of data science, Zac thrives on novel problems and learning opportunities—few things hold his attention unless they reveal new structure or insights. Based in Palo Alto, he pairs entrepreneurial drive with rigorous, research-oriented thinking to ship practical, insight-driven software.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
International Baccalaureate Diploma, International Baccalaureate Diploma at Troy High SchoolMaster of Science - MS, Computational and Applied Mathematics, 4.0, Master of Science - MS, Computational and Applied Mathematics, 4.0 at Brigham Young University
Github Skills (25)
cli9
shell9
sorting8
django8
zsh8
django-tables28
php8
tableview7
rails7
bash7
python7
docker7
macos7
homebrew6
cli-app6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Superman8218/dotfiles
Oct 2015 - Aug 2017
Contributions:48 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 10 months
Superman8218/setup
Oct 2015 - Jun 2017
Contributions:16 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 8 months
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