Richard Shaw

Head of Data at Rivet Foods · NLP

Rivet Foods

Miami, FL · ET (UTC-5)

11+ years experience

Rhode Island School of Design

English

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I lead NLP at Rivet Foods in Miami. Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week. Replaced 39 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust. Most at home with Python and evaluation. Trail runner and occasional climber.

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Building out language at Rivet Foods: data scientists wanted in Miami

Role: Data scientist
Level: Mid
Type: Full-time
Work mode: Hybrid
Compensation: $136k-$200k + equity
Team: Language, 13 people
Start: Within a month
Must have: Strong SQL and statistics Turns analysis into decisions Comfort with ambiguity
Process: Intro call, technical deep dive, team chat

Comp $201k-$282k. Four conversations, no take-home. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Miami, FL · remote OKpythonpytorchtransformers

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Experience

Head of Data
Jan 2024 - Present
Rivet Foods · 2 yr 9 mo · Contract · Miami, FL
- Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
- Replaced 49 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
- Taught SQL to 101 non-analysts.
Senior Data Scientist
Jul 2020 - Jan 2024
Pfizer · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Miami, FL
- Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
Data Scientist
Jun 2017 - Mar 2020
DoorDash · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Miami, FL
- Replaced 87 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
Data Analyst
Oct 2015 - Jun 2017
Ford · 1 yr 8 mo · Contract · Miami, FL
- Taught SQL to 48 non-analysts.
- Replaced 58 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.

Projects

Write-up: NLP in practice

2023

A long-form guide to NLP for people starting out.

Open-source PyTorch toolkit

2023

A small library for NLP that 795 developers star on GitHub.

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Education

Rhode Island School of Design
BFA, Operations Research
2010 - 2014

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