Steven Diamond
Compute Optimization Researcher
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven Diamond is a founder and research scientist with 13 years of experience bridging academia and industry in applied machine learning and optimization. Based in Mountain View, he holds BS, MS and a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford and has driven research roles at Gridmatic and BlackRock’s AI Labs before co-founding Optimal Intellect. He contributes to foundational open-source tooling—most notably improving documentation and MIP support for the widely used convex optimization library CVXPY—showing a knack for making complex math accessible to practitioners. Comfortable shipping research into production, he combines deep algorithmic expertise with product-minded engineering and a persistent focus on user experience. An under-the-radar strength is his sustained commitment to better docs and examples, which amplifies the impact of technical work across teams.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Stanford University
Github Skills (4)
documentation10
convex-optimization10
python10
api-design8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
cvxpy/cvxpy
Jul 2013 - Jan 2023
A Python-embedded modeling language for convex optimization problems.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Documentation Specialist
Back-end Developer & Documentation SpecialistContributions:21 releases, 856 reviews, 393 commits in 9 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Steven's commits primarily focused on updating and improving the documentation for the CVXPY library. The user updated examples, API documentation, and installation instructions, demonstrating a commitment to improving the user experience. Further contributions involved fixing issues and adding support for mixed integer programming (MIP) problems, signifying a role in the project's core functionality and user support. The user also contributed to updating examples to be more compatible with different versions of the package.
convex-optimizationpythoncvxpyoptimizationmodeling-language
cvxpy/cvxpyanalyzer
Jul 2020 - Oct 2021
Contributions:4 reviews, 6 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 3 months
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