Summary
Mike Badescu is a data scientist and founder with over a decade of hands-on experience building end-to-end analytics solutions that turn messy data into revenue-driving decisions. He leads Numeract, delivering projects from ETL and database architecture to machine learning, deep learning, and production deployment on AWS and Spark, with a toolkit spanning R/Shiny, Python, TensorFlow, SQL, Docker and more. His background blends academic rigor (Ph.D. in Business Economics) with practical finance and econometrics expertise used for portfolio optimization, private equity signals, anomaly detection, and advanced forecasting dashboards. Mike also mentors aspiring data scientists and has produced engineering feats like running R on AWS Lambda and multi-node R/Shiny systems, signaling a knack for squeezing performance from unconventional stacks. Based in Coppell, Texas, he pairs consulting and training with applied research across economics, finance and marketing, often delivering interactive visualizations and automated analytics that embed into clients’ workflows.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
B.Tech. Manufacturing Technology, B.Tech. Manufacturing Technology at Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology
Ph.D. Business Economics, Ph.D. Business Economics at Lehigh University
POLITEHNICA București National University for Science and Technology
Romanian, English, French