Steven Nicolaou
Verified Expert in Engineering
Data Scientist and Developer
Steven is a C# and Python developer, data scientist, search engineer, strong communicator, and creative thinker with 15 years of consulting experience in enterprise search and big data. He's focused on original and innovative solutions and has architected large search implementations across industries, including BP, Best Buy, Merck, McGraw Hill, Barnes & Noble, Goldman Sachs, Ernst & Young, the US Department of Justice, Dell, Xerox, and Kraft.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
PyCharm, Visual Studio, Windows
The most amazing...
...solo project I've built is a rule-based data cleansing and normalization pipeline for a Fortune 500's eCommerce website.
Work Experience
Data Scientist
Thermo Fisher Scientific
- Developed an app to track content translations and automatically trigger re-translation for modified content worldwide.
- Built a general-purpose ensemble NLP classifier with a variety of internal applications.
- Building an enterprise-wide knowledge graph for eCommerce.
- Built Lucidworks global synonym consolidation workflow to merge implicit relationships, eliminate duplication and streamline definitions.
Data Scientist
LinearBee
- Built a data cleansing and normalization pipeline for a Fortune 500 company's entire eCommerce catalog using Pandas and Spark.
- Built an equivalent product matcher for two global regions using Whoosh.
- Built customer feedback topic clusters for executive action using Pandas and Carrot2.
- Built an SEO category landing page tagger using product metadata.
- Built a product taxonomy classifier for products with missing taxonomy tags using Scikit-learn, Pandas, and Solr.
Principal Consultant
Microsoft Corporation
- Architected global enterprise search deployments for major corporations using SharePoint and FAST.
- Led relevance tuning and conducted customer education workshops.
- Developed the FAST ImPulse eCommerce search engine.
- Served as the team lead on many enterprise search deployments.
- Helped a customer build an innovative chemical search by drawing chemicals.
Architect
FAST Search
- Architected many enterprise search deployments for customers.
- Assisted with development, product management, analysis, deployment, and support for FAST Impulse eCommerce search engine.
- Consulted on relevance tuning, scaling, and data pipelines.
Experience
Cyprus Covid-19 Dashboard
Whoosh
https://github.com/whoosh-community/whooshFizzBuzz
https://github.com/stevennic/FizzBuzz-PythonSkills
Languages
Python, Python 3, SQL, C#, PHP
Libraries/APIs
Pandas, Scikit-learn, SQLAlchemy, NumPy, Carrot2, SciPy
Tools
Visual Studio, PyCharm, Solr, Git, Apache Solr, Apache Airflow, Amazon Athena, Plotly
Other
Search, Development, Amazon RDS, Machine Learning, Algorithms, Enterprise, Dashboards
Frameworks
Scrapy, Streamlit, Windows PowerShell, Spark
Paradigms
Data Science, Agile, REST
Platforms
Windows, Amazon EC2, SharePoint, Linux, Azure
Storage
Microsoft SQL Server, Elasticsearch, Redshift
Education
Master of Business Administration Degree in Entrepreneurship
Babson College - Wellesley, MA
Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science
Wentworth Institute of Technology - Boston, MA
Diploma in Computer Science
Cyprus University of Technology - Nicosia, Cyprus
Certifications
Microsoft Specialist: Azure Solutions
Microsoft
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: SharePoint 2010, Configuration
Microsoft
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: SharePoint 2010, Application Development
Microsoft
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