Colin Sullivan
Senior Data Scientist
Greater Boston United States
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Top SchoolColin Sullivan is a Senior Data Scientist with a decade of experience building production-grade NLP and ML systems for market research and consumer intelligence platforms. He has led and mentored teams at Brandwatch and now Datadog, turning vast indexed historical datasets into classifiers, theme summarizers, and named-entity linking pipelines that scale. Trained in computational linguistics (Brandeis) and linguistics (Haverford), he blends research-grade methods with rigorous software engineering practices to move R&D work into reliable production. Colin is particularly skilled at applying large language models and knowledge bases to messy real-world data, and he enjoys acting as a technical advisor who raises engineering standards across teams.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Linguistics, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Linguistics at Haverford CollegeMaster of Arts - MA, Computational Linguistics, Master of Arts - MA, Computational Linguistics at Brandeis University
Github Skills (64)
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
sullivancolin/hexpy
Jun 2019 - Jan 2020
A simple python package for working with the Crimson Hexagon API
Contributions:3 releases, 26 commits, 25 PRs in 7 months
python
sullivancolin/advent_of_code
Dec 2021 - Apr 2026
repo for Advent of Code attemps (2021, 2022)
Contributions:10 PRs, 43 pushes, 15 branches in 4 years 5 months
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