Todd Schiller
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
Todd is a software engineer with more than a decade of experience working on business and analytics applications. He's built decision systems for some of the world's largest hedge funds and consumer companies. Along with a Ph.D. degree in computer science, Todd has published peer-reviewed research on machine learning and automated program analysis.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Chrome, Git, IntelliJ IDEA, MacOS
The most amazing...
...project I've worked on is modeling end-to-end production network profitability and interactive simulations of new factories.
Work Experience
Head of Engineering
MOKA Analytics
- Brought the product from concept to market with customers including Fortune's Global 500 companies.
- Designed analytics systems using optimization, statistical modeling, NLP, and expert systems.
- Spearheaded a requirements analysis with a client business and IT stakeholders during sales and deployment.
- Managed a team of full-time software engineers; along with supervising contractors for QA, UI design, and ETL development.
Researcher | Knowledge Engineer
Bridgewater Associates
- Worked as a member of the Systemized Intelligence Lab led by Dave Ferrucci (former IBM Watson team lead).
- Liaised between research and development; wrote the requirements for the knowledge engineering systems.
- Designed and implemented knowledge-engineering tools with a focus on metareasoning.
- Built statistical models for people analytics.
Founding Consultant
FinLingua, Inc.
- Led the design, development, and integration of a derivatives order management system (OMS) for an investment manager with $130 billion AUM.
- Co-organized a workshop on domain-specific languages for financial systems (DSLFIN) at an international ACM/IEEE conference.
Business Analyst | Software Engineer
Numerix, LLC
- Led the design and development of domain-specific modeling infrastructure for a new analytics product; worked with product management to establish business and technical requirements for the product.
- Collaborated with senior developers and CEO to design the specification for a new structuring technology for the company’s flagship product.
- Held internal and external presentations for new technologies; presented technologies in sales demos.
Experience
Strategic Planning SaaS
https://www.moka.nyc/I took from concept to market, including a client from the Global 500.
Derivatives Order Management System (OMS)
Skills
Languages
Python, SQL, JavaScript, C#, Java, TypeScript, Scala, C++, RDF
Frameworks
Django, Redux, Chrome, Angular, Django REST Framework, Apache Jena
Tools
IntelliJ IDEA, Git, Microsoft Excel, Gensim, Weka
Paradigms
Business Intelligence (BI), Data Science, Functional Programming, Object-oriented Programming (OOP)
Platforms
Azure, MacOS, Telerik
Libraries/APIs
React, NetworkX, NumPy, Pandas, jQuery, D3.js, Highcharts, TensorFlow, Scikit-learn
Storage
Azure SQL, PostgreSQL
Other
Linear Optimization, Informatica, GNU, Chrome Extensions
Education
Ph.D. Degree in Computer Science
University of Washington - Seattle, WA, USA
Master's Degree in Computer Science
Washington University in St. Louis - St. Louis, MO, USA
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
Washington University in St. Louis - St. Louis, MO, USA
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