David Valpey
Data Scientist
Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
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Top SchoolDavid Valpey is a Utrecht-based senior Data Scientist with 11 years' experience, specializing in Natural Language Processing and pragmatic delivery of document mining and information retrieval solutions. He has led NLP consulting and internal platform work across financial, legal, and government domains, and now applies that expertise at DAS while preferring projects that support humanitarian or environmental causes. A hands-on Python developer and mentor, he builds production-ready pipelines with testing, MLOps, and containerization, drawing on earlier roles in server and database administration. His background in linguistics and translation (German↔English) gives him an edge in language-focused models and data curation that often goes beyond typical engineering skillsets. Comfortable administering Linux servers and designing database-backed systems, he blends operational reliability with research-informed NLP practice.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Ethnologie, Germanistik, Ethnologie, Germanistik at Heidelberg UniversityCertificate, Data Science, Certificate, Data Science at GalvanizeBA, Anthropology, German, Linguistics, BA, Anthropology, German, Linguistics at San José State UniversityLinguistic Anthropology, Linguistic Anthropology at Northern Arizona UniversityBellevue College
English, German, Spanish, Dutch
Stackoverflow
21reputation
586reached
1answer
0questions
Github Skills (15)
geographic9
gis8
api8
sustainability8
powershell6
windows6
javascript6
python6
qpid-proton6
natural-language-processing5
spark2
embedding1
roguelike1
scala1
glove1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
dvalp/nlp_experiments
Jan 2018 - Aug 2024
Contributions:69 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 7 months
dvalp/galvanize-capstone-project
Nov 2016 - Jan 2017
NLP Analysis of Washington State Supreme Court Opinions for my capstone project at Galvanize
Contributions:104 commits, 9 PRs, 85 pushes in 2 months
natural-language-processing
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