David Zou
Chief Technology Officer at Skip the Small Talk
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Zou is a Chief Technology Officer with 11 years of experience who brings a rare combination of experimental particle physics rigor and product-focused data engineering to consumer tech. He led technical strategy at Skip the Small Talk while previously turning large, noisy datasets into actionable models—using Random Forests and Streamlit prototypes to double client acquisition rates for a 3D-printing startup. His Ph.D. work involved analyzing over 30 trillion collider events and building C++ hardware/software interfaces used by a 5,000+ person collaboration, demonstrating expertise in both low-level systems and statistical inference. Based in Greater Boston, he excels at translating complex quantitative results for non-technical stakeholders and applying research-grade methods to practical business problems.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Physics, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Physics at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Elementary Particle Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Elementary Particle Physics at Boston University
Github Skills (1)
cms2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
dzoucms/genproductions
Jul 2015 - Jul 2019
Generator fragments for MC production
Contributions:5 pushes in 4 years
productionfragments
dzoucms/tacticalls_public
Mar 2020 - Sep 2021
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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