Spencer Buja
Member Of Technical Staff, Protocols at Anchorage Digital
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSpencer Buja is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience, currently contributing as a Software Engineer 3 at ZipRecruiter in New York. He blends a strong academic foundation in computer science and mathematics with practical expertise in NLP, developer analytics, and full-stack web development from roles at Microsoft and multiple startups. At Microsoft he owned developer analytics pipelines, produced high-impact research syntheses, and implemented a production NLP system collaborating with Microsoft Research, illustrating his ability to move novel models into scalable services. Early work includes medical image segmentation with a CNN+CRF that outperformed prior methods and mobile app integration, showing a knack for applied research as well as product delivery. Comfortable across Python, Node.js, and front-end frameworks, he pairs quantitative rigor with user-centered product ownership.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Engineering in Computer Science, Cum Laude, Bachelor of Science in Engineering in Computer Science, Cum Laude at University of MichiganMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignMenlo SchoolUNSW Sydney
English
Github Skills (43)
text-processing10
visualization9
simulation9
text-classification9
natural-language-processing9
visualizations9
synthetic-data9
nlp9
linear-models8
graphical-models8
causal-inference8
algorithms8
causal-discovery8
probability7
probabilistic-reasoning7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/LongitudinalDifferenceInDifferencesPy
Jul 2019 - Nov 2019
Did my program cause the improvement in my numbers?
Contributions:22 commits, 7 PRs, 20 pushes in 4 months
improvementpythoncausedid
csbuja/TheMatrixHasYou
Nov 2014 - Jun 2016
Contributions:8 commits, 1 push in 1 year 7 months
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