Hire the Best Data Scientists in St. Petersburg, FL
St. Petersburg, Florida
Data & ML Engineer | Geospatial AI | Databricks · Spark · GCP · Earth Observation APIs I build data platforms, Apps and AI/MLOps platforms that go to production. I run a 4-person geospatial engineering team at Darwin Geospatial. Before that, I worked 4 years at Brambles/CHEP in the Bay Area, from Junior Developer to Data Engineering Manager on Databricks and Spark, scaling global operations and leading a team of 3. Strong at: Cloud data architecture — GCP · BigQuery · Databricks · Delta Lake ML pipelines end-to-end — Agentic · Databases · Neural Networks Geospatial & remote sensing — Geospatial API's · Data Science · Land Analytics Dashboards & reporting — Power BI · Python · SQL Finance & Supply Chain Digitalization — Project planning · Engineering Leadership What matters more: I ship clean, documented, scalable engineering work on time.
- Data Analysis
- Machine Learning
- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning Model
- Agriculture & Mining
- Data Extraction
- ETL Pipeline
- ETL
- Analytical Presentation
- Remote Sensing
- Geospatial Data
- Database Architecture
- Environmental Engineering
- Environment & Green Technology
- Digital Strategy
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