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Data Science Engineer @ Eli Does Data Ran a data science consulting firm working with enterprise companies on both coasts of the US. Specialized in machine learning (especially within search), data collection, and warehousing. From January 2014 to November 2014 (11 months) San Francisco Bay AreaData Engineer @ Tumblr -Worked on spam and phishing detection system using...

Data Science Engineer @ Eli Does Data Ran a data science consulting firm working with enterprise companies on both coasts of the US. Specialized in machine learning (especially within search), data collection, and warehousing. From January 2014 to November 2014 (11 months) San Francisco Bay AreaData Engineer @ Tumblr -Worked on spam and phishing detection system using Python and NLTK, along with Hadoop and PIG for data processing. From August 2011 to October 2011 (3 months) Greater New York City AreaLead Data Scientist @ The BackPlane Inc. - Led interviewing and built and managed a team of machine learning engineers- Evaluated all associated technologies and coded entire logging system and flow used throughout all of Backplane- Built entire backend portion of our Internal Analytics Portal and led development of associated frontend and visualizations- Created and wrote all backend and machine learning code for Backplane’s personalized feed,­­ which performed 30%+ better than original hot feed in all relevant A/B test statistics.- Built framework for interfacing between Elastic Map Reduce and analytics portal and main site- Built algorithms for generating trending topics, related topics, top users per tag, and others that increased time on site and user retention in A/B tests.- Managed other projects among development of our custom A/B testing framework, people recommendation, user retention stats, and spam detection. From August 2012 to January 2014 (1 year 6 months) San Francisco Bay AreaSoftware Engineer, Data Science @ Shutterstock -Built an implementation of fuzzy autocomplete that increased our E-commerce conversion rate 9.8% in A/B tests.-Implemented improvements to multilingual search that decreased 0 search result pages 20-50% per language in all supported languages.-Helped build out recommendation systems for photos and keywords. From October 2011 to August 2012 (11 months) Greater New York City AreaTeaching Assistant in Econometrics @ Brandeis University -Teaching Assistant for upper level Econometrics class (undergraduate and graduate students)-Explained concepts in Econometrics to students during office hours-Graded tests and homework for 30 students per semester From January 2009 to May 2009 (5 months) Latin Group Study Leader @ Brandeis University -Selected to tutor Latin Students in all Brandeis Latin courses-Tutored students on declension, conjugation, and reading comprehension in Latin From April 2008 to December 2008 (9 months) Teaching Assistant in Computer Science @ Brandeis University -Teaching Assistant two semesters in a row-Explained concepts in data structures to students during office hours-Graded tests and homework for 30 students per semester From January 2007 to May 2008 (1 year 5 months) Web Designer @ Brandeis University -Improvements to forums and club pages on my.brandeis.edu using TCL, SQL, HTML, and CSS-Standardization of page design for departments at Brandeis-Work with faculty members at Brandeis.edu toward improving page designs. From September 2005 to May 2007 (1 year 9 months) Founder and CEO @ Constructor Constructor.io is a search and discovery platform that helps enterprise e-commerce companies improve their search, navigation, and recommendations experience and conversion rates. Founded by engineers with years of experience in high-growth, high-traffic sites, we strive to deliver the best search and discovery experience available anywhere. San Francisco Bay AreaSoftware Engineer, Natural Language Processing @ FactSet Research Systems -Worked on information extraction and classification for financial data using Perl, SQL, and MALLET-Improved author classification in analyst reports to increase tagging f-score from .78 to .96 and prevent timeouts-Built a title classification system from scratch to tag titles in financial legal documents using Perl along with MALLET classifiers. From July 2010 to August 2011 (1 year 2 months) Lead Web Developer / IT @ Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies -Main software engineer and tech support for the organization starting sophomore year of college.-Optimized register.birthrightIsrael.com to increase capacity from 300 concurrent users to 3000 using just two servers the company was willing to provide.-Managed biannual registration at register.birthrightIsrael.com (10,000+ registrants in the first hour of Open Registration on just two servers)-Created and managed a database synchronization system-Added user-requested functionality to Birthright’s administration website-Created and deployed new layout and functionality for CMJS.org, Register.BirthrightIsrael.com, and RegAdmin.BirthrightIsrael.com-Maintained and upgraded computers across the center’s network From September 2006 to 2010 (4 years)