Steven Jeffrey Ito

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Senior Data Scientist at Verizon · NLP

Verizon
Atlanta, GA · ET (UTC-5)
7+ years experience
Princeton University
English
Open to work
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Overview

I work on NLP at Verizon in Atlanta. Replaced 67 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust. Most at home with Python and evaluation. I speak at conferences a couple of times a year.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Roles in NLP
  • Second opinions on Python decisions
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
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  • Offshore staffing offers
  • Unpaid work or spec projects
  • Generic networking requests
Skills
evaluationinformation retrievalPythonPyTorch
Open to workLooking for a role
closes in 3 months

Next role: Data Scientist in AI infrastructure, Atlanta or hybrid

Target roles
Data Scientist
Level
Senior
Industries
E-commerce, Developer tools
Work mode
On-site
Available
90 days notice
Work authorization
Authorized to work in the GA
What I'm looking for
A team that ships weekly and owns language end to end.
Not interested in
Contract-only roles

7 years in NLP. Strongest at PyTorch and Python. Open to the right conversation.

Atlanta, GApytorchinformation retrievalevaluation
Open

Experience

  1. Senior Data Scientist
    Sep 2023 - Present
    Verizon · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Atlanta, GA
    • Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
    • Built the language models now used in 4 product decisions a quarter.
    • Taught SQL to 148 non-analysts.
  2. Data Scientist
    Feb 2022 - Sep 2023
    Salesforce · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Atlanta, GA
    • Replaced 100 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
    • Taught SQL to 137 non-analysts.
  3. Data Scientist
    Mar 2020 - Feb 2022
    Intel · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Atlanta, GA
    • Replaced 99 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.

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Education

  1. Princeton University
    AB, Mathematics
    2015 - 2019

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