Tristan Koopman

Experience

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  Optum

  Jun 2016 - Aug 2016

  Software Development Intern

  Reinforced programming experience through the creation of an internal tool to efficiently on-board new clients to a big data platform. Introduced to the Big Data landscape and Hadoop. Learned how to develop functioning webpages using JS, HTML, CSS, and jQuery. Strengthened teamwork skills in an Agile environment with daily scrum meetings. Presented project progress updates biweekly to the company executives via PowerPoint, thus enhancing oral communication skills.

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  University of Massachusetts Amherst

  Aug 2016 - Dec 2016

  Tutor

  Learned valuable leadership skills while tutoring my peers on electrical engineering and computer science courses. Strengthened my ability to translate complex technical problems to people of all abilities and backgrounds.

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  MITRE

  Jun 2017 - Aug 2017

  Sensors Engineering Intern

  Enhanced programming and software development skills through running SAR algorithms and simulations in MATLAB. Developed technical communication skills through writing a technical report on an electronic protection model and presenting the results to my department.

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  University of Massachusetts Amherst

  Aug 2017 - Apr 2018

  Undergraduate Research Assistant

  Furthered my programming and data analytic skills through developing a pumped storage simulation model in Python implementing Numpy and Pandas. This model was used to understand the relationship between increased wind capacity on the grid and operation of pumped hydro storage. I enhanced my communication and technical writing skills through presentations to my research team and writing an honors thesis.

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  IBM

  Oct 2018 - Jun 2021

  • Develop cognitive and analytic solutions for Federal clients leveraging AI and Deep Learning frameworks in Python• Research and develop computer vision, natural language processing, and machine learning models (Python, TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch, Scikit-Learn, spaCy, NLTK, Gensim, Pandas)• Integrate custom built and commercial off-the-shelf systems into a single cloud deployed platform (Azure, IBM Cloud)• Lead technical development teams overseeing client communication, timelines, and deliverables • Convey technological milestones and contextualize progress through client meetings, technical reports, and live demonstrations Show less • Served as Deep Learning development lead on a joint effort with IBM Research to create supervised and unsupervised learning approaches to identify anomalous activity in video data primarily developing in PyTorch• Managed technical team on a client engagement to conceive an AI/ML prototype information retrieval and knowledge management system; Invented a custom NLP search algorithm enabling a robust Q&A capability in a Virtual Agent• Performed as Data Scientist on a project developing a KPI analytics dashboard for client to monitor and report anomalies surfaced from employee data; Built analytic models to detect and alert users of trends, outliers, and drivers• Served as a Data Scientist on an engagement building a news media analytics application driven by ML models; Created training data; Developed text similarity algorithms; Analyzed model performance Show less

  • Senior AI Consultant

    May 2020 - Jun 2021

  • AI Consultant

    Oct 2018 - May 2020
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  Tamr

  Jul 2021 - now

  • Design and build scalable and continuous machine learning (ML) pipelines• Build, change, and manage cloud infrastructure in a safe, consistent, and repeatable way using Infrastructure as code tools (Terraform)• Design, develop and improve build and deployment standards and processes using CI/CD tools• Develop efficient code to create low-latency, scalable, and containerized solutions using REST APIs and serverless cloud deployment options

  • Data Product Manager

    Feb 2024 - now

  • Lead DataOps Engineer

    Sept 2023 - Feb 2024

  • Senior DataOps Engineer

    Sept 2022 - Sept 2023

  • DataOps Engineer

    Jul 2021 - Sept 2022