Sylvia Naples

CTO

Brooklyn, New York, United States13 yrs 3 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in machine learning and data engineering.
Proven track record in developing fraud detection systems.
Strong background in teaching and academic research.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and Data Science expert with strong engineering capabilities.

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AJAXAcademic ResearchAdvanced MathematicsAmazon Web Services (AWS)ArduinoBashBootstrapC++Computer VisionD3.jsData CleaningData ScienceData VisualizationDeep LearningGit

Experience

Ocrolus

2 roles

Engineering Lead

Promoted

Jun 2022 – Dec 2024 · 2 yrs 6 mos · New York, New York, United States

Detect is a new product that leverages Ocrolus' ML to detect fraud on bank statements, paystubs, and W2s. We output contextualized visualizations, making it easy to quickly confirm file tampering on pdfs.

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Mar 2020 – Jun 2022 · 2 yrs 3 mos · New York, New York, United States

Integrated language models such as BERT, BERT NER
Designed, developed, and implemented unique approach to privacy preserving ML models allowing us to train ML models for clients with strict data retention policies without any loss to accuracy
Developed ensemble model
Solved mixed doc classification problem and led the implementation
Made significant improvements to accuracy for classification and capture models

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Machine Learning Engineer

Nov 2018 – Feb 2020 · 1 yr 3 mos · Greater New York City Area

Wnyc radio

Senior Data Engineer

Apr 2017 – Nov 2018 · 1 yr 7 mos · Greater New York City Area

Software Engineer responsible for building and developing a data warehouse
Developed automated extractions using python requests, asyncio, s3
Wrote luigi pipelines to transform data using pandas to efficiently clean and enhance millions of rows of data nightly and load into AWS Redshift
Optimized Redshift distribution styles and distribution keys for memory and query speed
Developed strategic questions & delivered insights
Presented developments and data analysis to teams across the company every two weeks
Agile and SCRUM framework
Managed two engineers

Forum education

Math and Programming Tutor

Jun 2016 – Aug 2024 · 8 yrs 2 mos

Empirasign strategies, llc

Full Stack Engineer

Jun 2016 – Mar 2017 · 9 mos · New York, NY

Lead engineer at a startup specializing in parsing, cleaning, and distributing market data
Developed data validation scripts using Python, pyparsing, marshmallow, and django
Full stack API integration with CRUD operations on SQL and MongoDB databases
Expanded test coverage with unittest; used Sentry error tracking to find and fix bugs
Delivered clean, concise, and well-documented bug-free code in a fast-paced environment
Strong communication with team to optimize code for design and usability

Financial industry regulatory authority

QA Engineer

Jan 2013 – Jun 2015 · 2 yrs 5 mos · New York, NY

End-to-end testing of code to detect fraudulent behavior against millions of options trades
Designed test cases and test data in Excel based on functional requirements
Debugged and edited code in SQL, SAS, AWS Elastic MapReduce (EMR), Hive
End to end automated testing using custom SQL queries and shell scripts
Used unix command line and vi editor to read logs, update code, and load to databases
Ran automated tests, manual tests, and regression tests
Worked closely with users, developers, and business analysts
Logged and tracked defects in JIRA

Tutor associates

Tutor

Jan 2012 – Jun 2013 · 1 yr 5 mos

Private math tutoring in high school math and test preparation
Taught an SAT class

University of oregon

Teaching Fellow

Sep 2010 – Jun 2012 · 1 yr 9 mos

Served as the sole instructor of a college Pre-Calculus course for 36 undergraduates. Responsibilities included writing and presenting original lectures (four days a week); writing and grading quizzes and exams; working with students one-on-one, and often managing small groups of students during office hours (3-4 hrs/week).