Delano Mcfarlane
Consultant, Researcher, Advisor at Spring Mountain C
New York, New York, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolDelano Mcfarlane is a New York–based consultant, researcher, and advisor with 14 years of experience building data-driven software and machine learning systems across fintech, consumer, and public health domains. He blends an MEng from MIT and advanced biomedical informatics training from Columbia with hands-on leadership roles—from Head of Engineering/Data Science at Venmo to Engineering & Data Lead at Gabbi—to translate research into production analytics and personalized applications. His work spans personalized news, financial research tooling, and sports prediction, and he routinely advises startups and boards on data strategy and engineering best practices. Known for "building data things," he combines deep technical breadth with domain fluency in medical/public health informatics, a background that informs more rigorous, privacy-aware approaches to ML and product design.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
MEng Computer Science, MEng Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyPhD Biomedical Informatics, PhD Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University
English
Stackoverflow
1reputation
0reached
0answers
0questions
Github Skills (16)
statistics10
machine-learning10
python10
data-science10
data-analysis10
scikit-learn9
sequential5
hyperparameters5
visualization4
optuna4
optimization4
scientific-visualization3
scientific-computing3
scipy2
hyperparameter-optimization2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ledona/fantasy-experiments
Jul 2019 - Jul 2026
sports analytics experiment results
Contributions:1 PR, 1117 pushes, 96 branches in 7 years 1 month
ledona/delano_setup
Feb 2012 - Nov 2022
Contributions:352 commits, 161 pushes, 4 branches in 10 years 10 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.