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.”

Dolly Shyam

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and AI-driven platforms

New York, NY4y exp

“Backend-focused developer with primary experience in Python, Node.js, databases, and API development. Served as the sole backend engineer on a customer dashboard project, owning database review, API endpoint creation, and coordination with frontend developers for integration.”

“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.”

“Data engineer with ~4 years of experience building Python-based data ingestion/processing services and real-time streaming pipelines (Kafka/PubSub + Spark Structured Streaming). Has deployed containerized data applications on Kubernetes with GitLab CI/Jenkins pipelines and applied GitOps to cut deployment time ~40% while reducing config drift. Also supported a legacy on-prem data warehouse/backend migration to GCP using phased migration and parallel validation to meet strict reliability/SLA needs.”

“Senior Data Scientist in consulting who has built production RAG systems for insurance/annuity document search at large scale (100K+ PDF pages), emphasizing grounded answers, guardrails, and low-latency retrieval. Experienced in end-to-end MLOps for LLM apps—monitoring, evaluation sets, drift handling, and safe rollouts—and in orchestrating complex pipelines with Prefect/Airflow and deploying services on Kubernetes.”

“Marketing analytics candidate who combines strong SQL data engineering with Python automation to turn messy GA4, Instagram, and Postgres data into reliable reporting and decision tools. They’ve built cohort- and retention-based measurement frameworks that shifted teams away from vanity metrics, improved campaign allocation, and drove roughly 30% better two-week retention.”