Quico Spaen
Sr. Applied Science Manager at Amazon
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolQuico Spaen is a senior applied science leader with a decade of experience building large-scale optimization and machine learning systems to plan Amazon’s Middle Mile truckload and rail network. He leads teams that translate operations research and forecasting models into production-grade decision tools solving vehicle routing, equipment rebalancing, and demand prediction at continental scale. Trained as a Ph.D. in Operations Research with additional masters in ML and IEOR from UC Berkeley, he blends rigorous academic methods with pragmatic engineering to deliver measurable network efficiencies. Based in Sunnyvale, he has progressed through individual contributor and management roles at Amazon, pairing hands-on model development with cross-functional program leadership. Notably, his work focuses on hard combinatorial problems where scalable approximation and forecasting meet real-world logistics constraints.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Operations Research & Industrial Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Operations Research & Industrial Engineering at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor's Degree Liberal Arts and Sciences, Bachelor's Degree Liberal Arts and Sciences at Amsterdam University CollegePre-master Econometrics & Operations Research, Pre-master Econometrics & Operations Research at Erasmus University Rotterdam
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Github Skills (19)
gofmt10
python10
autopep810
pre-commit-hook10
minimum-cut10
yapf10
imaging9
neuroscience9
algorithm8
windows-subsystem-for-linux7
python-black6
closure6
pip5
atom-editor4
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
hochbaumGroup/sparsecomputation
Dec 2016 - Jan 2023
Sparse computation algorithm for identifying relevant pairwise similarities between objects.
Contributions:1 review, 110 commits, 5 PRs in 6 years 1 month
hochbaumGroup/HNCcorr
May 2018 - Dec 2020
HNCcorr algorithm for neuron identification in calcium imaging datasets.
Contributions:407 commits, 7 PRs, 38 pushes in 2 years 7 months
imagingcalcium-imagingneuroscienceneuroscience-methods
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