Vetted Data & Analytics Professionals in the NYC Metro

Michael Forster

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Senior Data Engineer specializing in ETL/ELT pipelines and data integration platforms

New York, NY15y exp

“Data engineer/software engineer who led an end-to-end ETL/ELT pipeline at Pearson processing millions of rows of student data nightly, including client-side data prep/validation, SFTP/API ingestion, staging-based SQL validation/transforms, and production loading. Built reliability features like configurable per-client validation thresholds, detailed reporting, concurrency throttling via a custom queue, and multi-source merge/backfill logic to keep nightly loads running even when sources fail.”

“Built and deployed a real-time hospital readmission risk prediction system at NYU Langone Health, combining structured EHR data with BERT-based NLP on clinical notes and serving predictions to clinicians via Azure ML and FHIR APIs. Emphasizes production reliability and clinical trust through SHAP-based explainability and robust healthcare data preprocessing, and reports a 22% reduction in 30-day readmissions.”

“Clinical data scientist who has built an agentic LLM-powered literature review assistant (with RAG-style storage/retrieval) to identify predictors for downstream predictive modeling. Also delivered a patient-focused progression analysis model using Databricks + Airflow orchestration, partnering closely with clinicians to define targets and validate that model insights aligned with clinical expectations.”

“ML/NLP engineer (Beyond Identity) who built production semantic search and entity-resolution systems over internal security documentation, using LDA + BERT embeddings with FAISS/Pinecone to cut search time by 30%. Also scaled a real-time anomaly detection pipeline to millions of events/day with Spark and AWS Lambda, with strong emphasis on measurable validation (Precision@k, MRR, F1, ARI).”

Caleb Heo

Screened

Senior Finance & Investment Analyst specializing in TMT, valuation, and quantitative strategy

New York, NY7y exp

“VC deal-sourcing professional with Sutton Capital experience who combines quantitative tooling, alternative data, and thesis-driven founder outreach to surface under-the-radar startups early. Distinctive for building Python-based sourcing and tracking engines, converting cold outreach into qualified deal flow, and pairing relationship-building with rigorous unit economics analysis for partner-level investment decisions.”