<center> <h1 style=" font-family: Avenir; font-weight: 300; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px ">Nathaniel Dake</h1> </center>
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[email protected] | www.nathanieldake.com | (716)-913-3440 </p></center>
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Lead Data Scientist / ML Engineer
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<span style="float:right;"> Seel Inc. </span>
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Proved core product had path to profitability via architecting and implementing an end to end underwriting system that reduced loss ratio from 200% to 70%.
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Owned all phases of ML life cycle: Problem definition, research & experimentation, design & implementation of end to end ML pipeline (ETL, feature engineering, training, evaluation, model serving & decision making, real time monitoring, AB testing)
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Implemented state of the art technique to perform product and session embeddings. This enabled increasing the availability rate for high risk customers by over 20%
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Designed novel KNN classifier that improved calibration error by 3%. This lead to a 10% increase in low price offers, increasing attach rate by 7%
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Lead team by creating a culture of data, critical thinking, experimentation, iteration and learning, and prioritization in a fast paced, dynamic startup environment
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AI Engineer
<span style="float:right; color:grey; font-weight:normal"> | Jan 2021 - Dec 2021</span>
<span style="float:right;"> Unsupervised Inc. </span>
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Key contributor to (core IP) novel weighted graph search algorithm
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Collaborated with team to implement novel metadata management system that tied together Data/Feature Engineering, compute, typing, metadata, in a rich graph structure.
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Bridged gap between Engineering, Data Science and Product. Created tutorials, documentation and workshops outlining how to use our core APIs and demonstrating their power
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Senior Data Scientist
<span style="float:right; color:grey; font-weight:normal"> Oct 2019 - Mar 2021</span>
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Researched and developed creative notions of distance, geometry and topology to define a space (representation) that enabled finding interesting, human understandable insights
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Designed a Mutual Information Finder that would determine how similar two samples from a dataset were and generate an embedding space that could be used in insight selection
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Creatively used core product on customer projects (working with verticals such as health care, shipping & transportation, and ecommerce). Presented results and findings to customers
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Data Engineer
<span style="float:right; color:grey; font-weight:normal"> | Jan 2019 - Oct 2019</span>
<span style="float:right;"> Uplight Inc. </span>
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Architected serverless ETL processes that handled the ingestion of +50 GB of data per day from multiple energy utilities into postgresql data stores
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Implemented neural network models that provided customers with increased insight into energy usage, while AB testing models performance
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Optimized compute and memory heavy processes (reducing server costs and increasing developer productivity)
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ML Engineer
<span style="float:right; color:grey; font-weight:normal"> | May 2017 - Jan 2019</span>
<span style="float:right;"> Carimus Inc. </span>
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Led effort to utilize machine learning and mathematical modeling to automate manual decision processes
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Built machine learning pipeline that consisted of a succession of unique models, finally offering recommendations on litigation to pursue. This system decreased the need for manual labor by three-fold
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Architected and implemented an automated data ingestion processes via a parallelized serverless architecture, with storage in MySQL relational database
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<h2 style="font-family: Avenir; font-weight: 100; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 0px">Writing</h2>
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Data Science and Mathematics Communicator
<span style="float:right; color:grey; font-weight:normal"> | Aug 2017 - Present</span>
<span style="float:right;"> nathanieldake.com </span>
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Authored over 50 articles on complex technical subjects, such as:
<a href="https://www.nathanieldake.com/Machine_Learning/08-Bayesian_Machine_Learning-03-Bayes-Classifiers.html">
Bayesian Classifiers</a>,
<a href="https://www.nathanieldake.com/Deep_Learning/03-Recurrent_Neural_Networks-01-The-Simple-Recurrent-Unit.html">
Recurrent Neural Nets</a>,
<a href="https://www.nathanieldake.com/Mathematics/04-Statistics-04-non-parametric-tests-kolmogorov-smirnov-test.html">
Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test</a>,
<a href="https://www.nathanieldake.com/Machine_Learning/05-Hidden_Markov_Models-04-Hidden-Markov-Models-Hidden-Markov-Models-Discrete-Observations.html">
Hidden Markov Models</a>,
<a href="https://www.nathanieldake.com/Machine_Learning/07-Dimensionality_Reduction-01-PCA.html">
Principal Components Analysis</a>,
<a href="https://www.nathanieldake.com/Machine_Learning/08-Bayesian_Machine_Learning-01-Bayesian-Inference.html">
Bayesian Inference</a>,
<a href="https://www.nathanieldake.com/Machine_Learning/08-Bayesian_Machine_Learning-02-Bayesian-AB-Testing.html">
Bayesian AB Testing</a>,
<a href="https://www.nathanieldake.com/Mathematics/04-Statistics-03-statistical-inference.html">
Frequentist Hypothesis Testing</a>,
<a href="https://www.nathanieldake.com/Mathematics/04-Statistics-02-History-of-Normal-Distribution.html">
Mathematical History of the Normal Distribution</a>,
<a href="https://www.nathanieldake.com/Mathematics/06-Functions-02-Inverse-functions-exponentials-and-logarithms.html">
Exploring Inverse Functions, Exponentials and Logarithms</a>
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<h2 style="font-family: Avenir; font-weight: 100; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 0px">Education</h2>
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Northeastern University
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<span style="float:right;"> Bachelor of Science: Mechanical Engineering</span>
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Boston, MA
<span style="float:right;"> Minors: Physics, Mathematics, Biomechanical Engineering</span>
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Python • Pandas • Numpy • Scikit Learn • Dask • SciPy • SQL • AWS Stack • DVC • Git • Docker • Kubernetes • HTML/CSS • Micro Services