Tom Szumowski
Sr. Principal Data Scientist
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Szumowski is a Sr. Principal Data Scientist with nine years of industry experience building AI systems that accelerate product development and time-to-market for fashion and retail brands. Based in Philadelphia, he has risen through progressive data science and engineering roles at URBN and Nuuly, translating advanced ML into production-ready solutions across Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie, Free People and Nuuly. His background in electrical and computer engineering (Rutgers) and an M.S. in electrical engineering (UPenn) informs a rigorous, systems-oriented approach to model design and deployment. Tom pairs hands-on technical leadership with cross-functional impact—leading teams, shipping scalable models, and embedding analytics into product workflows. He also brings prior applied research and engineering experience from Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Technology Laboratories, giving him a strong foundation in complex, high-assurance systems. Notably, his career progression shows a knack for turning experimental AI into measurable business outcomes within large retail ecosystems.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Electrical Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.) Electrical Engineering at University of PennsylvaniaBachelor of Science (BS) Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rutgers University
Github Skills (200)
python10
ui-components10
model-management10
gradio-interface10
prompt-engineering10
prediction10
forecast10
mlmodel10
mlflow10
chirp10
llmops10
ai10
observability10
trend10
pystan10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
tszumowski/airflow_slack_operator
Feb 2019 - Aug 2020
Slack alert operator as well as example code for success/fail callbacks
Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 1 year 5 months
callbackoperatorslack
tszumowski/retrieval_augmented_llm_pipelines
Mar 2023 - Sep 2024
Serverless OpenAI+ChatGPT+Pinecone cloud-based pipelines to embed and index all the things for a personal semantic search engine
Contributions:32 PRs, 57 pushes, 36 branches in 1 year 6 months
cloud-computingsemantic-searchserverless
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