Experience

Career

Focused on building a data science platform to enable anyone to solve problems
Continuing development of open source software from Feature Labs acquisition
Created Woodwork, a library for data typing used in Featuretools, and EvalML
Managing a team of software engineers and working closely with product management
Provided feedback, coaching, mentoring and facilitate career growth of all direct reports
Developed a product and staffing roadmap to achieve the team’s goals
Leveraged feedback from customers and internal stakeholders to improve the team’s outputs

First engineering hire that helped scale the team from 3 to 10 people
Architected enterprise ML platform for building predictive models
Core contributor to Featuretools, the most popular feature engineering library
Designed & created 110+ primitives (relational dataset calculations)
Created tutorials, and data science courses to educate about feature engineering
Developed custom ML algorithm for AWS SageMaker for scalable ML deployment
Sole engineer for Flask application that serves 50K API calls on a monthly basis

G. Sheni, B. Schreck, R. Wedge, K. Veeramachaneni and J. Max Kanter. “Prediction Factory: Automated Development and Collaborative Evaluation of Predictive Models.” ArXiv.org. N.p., 29 Nov. 2018 Web