Christopher Merchantz Email & Phone Number

Somerville, Massachusetts, United States

• Ensure consistently high ML performance in production• Build and maintain robust live data ingress, processing, inference, and monitoring processes• Embrace modern tools and processes

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Communicated business value to stakeholders by producing performance reports and presenting them effectively to non-technical audiences, winning and retaining business from dozens of clients• Classified and visualized the behavior of 100M+ online shoppers by building custom dashboards and their supporting data pipelines• Led efforts to proactively prevent deployment of models with poor performance and anomalous behavior by designing and implementing new safeguards• Owned technical strategy and coordinated across departments on projects to identify and solve subtle data quality issues in large datasets• Evangelized software engineering best practices

Ann Arbor, Mi

• Performed numerical simulation, data analysis, and data visualization to produce original research on the chemistry of young star systems• Presented results at International Astronomical Union Symposium 332 "Astrochemistry VII – Through the Cosmos from Galaxies to Planets" and "Origins of Solar Systems" Gordon Research Conference

Ann Arbor, Mi

• Prepared lectures and designed lessons for 200-level laboratory sections• Received median 4.9/5 course ratings, consistently rated in top quartile university-wide

Ann Arbor, Mi

• Prepared lectures and designed lessons for 200-level laboratory sections• Received median 4.9/5 course ratings, consistently rated in top quartile university-wide

Cambridge, Ma

• Conducted radiative transfer simulations to compare physical/chemical models against observations to constrain chemical abundances in a young star system’s protoplanetary disk• Contributed to publication in peer-reviewed scientific journal

Cambridge, Ma

• Analyzed chemical simulation results to predict planet compositions based on their formation location• Presented results at 225th meeting of the American Astronomical Society

Cambridge, Ma

• Led initiative to preserve and catalog portion of irreplaceable historic astronomy data as part of the Digital Access to a Sky Century at Harvard (DASCH) project

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Astrophysics, Chemistry & Physics

Activities and Societies: President, Mariachi Véritas de Harvard President, Student Astronomers at Harvard-Radcliffe Head Editor.

Master Of Science - Ms, Astronomy And Astrophysics

Coursework included Modern Astronomical Techniques (Python, SQL, Bayesian Analysis)