Brent Edwards Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

A one-year contract that may be extended after April 15, 2025.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Working in the Data Science department for Clari, improving forecasting. Lead the team that created the first new score for Clari in ten years, measuring effort in acquiring a new sale. Lead the team that moved a completely new CRM (customer relationship management) score from prototype to used by all Clari customers.Technologies include: Amazon AWS (including boto3), Cassandra, data warehousing, git, Gradle, Jenkins, Linux, Markov Models, MongoDB, NumPy, Python, Reinforcement Learning, Scala, Statistics, Sumo Logic, UML, ZeroMQ

San Mateo, California, Us

Updating and improving the search engine that Edmodo uses. Technologies include Apache Thrift, natural language processing, and Python.

San Mateo, California, Us

I've been leading a group of three analysts in all aspects of data science and data engineering in one job. Everything from statistical analysis to building ETL pipelines to creating and running SQL scripts.This team automatically generate business reports. Technologies include SQL, Python, Redshift, SQL, Tableau, the Python interface to Google Spreadsheets, MySQL, SQLAlchemy, SQL, Docker, Airflow, and Jupyter. And SQL.While at Edmodo, I gave classes in Natural Language Processing based on Open.AI, Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppman, and programming in Spark.

San Mateo, California, Us

My first task for Edmodo was in Natural Language Processing (NLP), using Python to interpret and intelligently filter huge datasets of questions. Libraries used included Fast.ai, FastText, MongoDB, Numpy, Pandas, SciPy, SKLearn, and SpaCy. And lots and lots of JSON. With a change of management came a change of responsibilities. As a data scientist, I'm writing software to automatically generate business reports. Technologies include SQL, Python, SQL, Tableau, the Python interface to Google Spreadsheets, SQL, SQLAlchemy, Redshift, SQL, Docker, Airflow, and not enough Jupyter. And I've been training newer data scientists.

San Jose, California, Us

Created data pipeline, REST interface for email alerts, created decline explainer system, which explains why purchases were not approved. Taught classes in feature analysis, statistical concepts, and Designing Data-Intensive Applications.Major technologies used at Signifyd:Airflow, APIary, Arcanist/Phacility, AWS Cloudformation, Cucumber, Datadog, Docker, Gradle, Guice, IntelliJ, Immutables, Java data streams, Kubernetes, MySQL, Payment fraud, Play Framework, Python, Redshift

Completely rewrote Mixpo’s ‘special reports’ system, moving from BASH shell scripts (yes, really.) to a JasperReport-based system. I documented the new system, and trained the whole Client Services team in SQL. I moved the main software system from PostgreSQL 9.4 to Amazon-based Redshift databases. Wrote DevOps monitoring and graphing software in Clojure, Ruby and shell script. Taught classes in Clojure, multi-threaded programming in Java, and SQL. Technoloiges include Advertising, Amazon Redshift, Amazon S3, AWS, Bash, Clojure, Docker, Jenkins, Logic Monitor, PostgreSQL, Ruby

Reston, Va, Us

Updated software written in Java, Scala, and Ruby on Rails to monitor power for hundreds of companies. Updated reporting system to be 10x faster and vastly more stable. Helped migrate from PostgreSQL to Cassandra (a NoSQL database). Moved software from OSGi to just using Web servlets. Major technologies used at Gridpoint:Cassandra, git, Hazelcast, Hibernate, Java, JUnit, Linux, Maven, Mockito, OSGi, Postgres, some Python, Scala, servlets, Spring, SQL, Apache Tomcat, Ubuntu

Bellevue, Wa, Us

Turned a new, commercial application into a enterprise-worthy piece of software. Programmed new components in Java, wrote monitoring scripts under Xymon, wrote installation scripts in Perl, and wrote extensive documentation. This application is now being used by American Express, Bank of America, and Microsoft.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Improved response time of every hit on the Amazon.com website by 70ms by dramatically simplifying the JavaScript client-side metrics. Improved the robot detection algorithm by over 20% by detecting otherwise undetected, regular patterns in timing of hits.Wrote and updated software in Java for 1200-node Hadoop cluster.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Computer Science

Master Of Science (M.S.), Statistics

B.A. Degree, Mathematics And Computer Science