Alvin Au — Resume

Profile

An experienced quantitative developer and data scientist with a background spanning modelling, infrastructure, and analytics. I've worked across the full stack of data — from raw ingestion pipelines to production ML systems — and thrive on building things that are both rigorous and scalable.

Experience

Quantitative Developer

Oracle Alpha

Jan 2023 — Present

Toronto, ON

[Details withheld]

Quantitative Developer

Delphia

Mar 2021 — Jan 2023

Toronto, ON

[Details withheld]

Senior Data Scientist

Radar Labs

Jul 2019 — Mar 2021

Brooklyn, NY

Handled ingestion and processing of raw places data at scale.
Built a model to predict user commutes from inferred home and work locations.
Led harmonization of multiple data sources into a unified Place data layer.
Defined metrics and acceptance tests; created dashboards to evaluate algorithmic changes.
Location permissions analytics pipeline, surfaced as a live dashboard.

ScalaSparkPython TypeScriptMongoDBRedis ReactAirflowAWS

Co-Founder

Northspring Technologies

Sep 2018 — May 2019

Toronto, ON

Led sales, marketing, copywriting, and design across all products.
Sniped — a Slack app gamifying laptop security.
Measured — modernizing product measurement display for Shopify stores.
Yoink — a hosted mutex platform with Slack integration.

Senior Statistical Analyst

Precima

Jul 2016 — Aug 2018

Toronto, ON

ML pipelines for customer segmentation, valuation, and decision trees.
Migrated SAS processes to Python — clustering and regression.
Automated periodic SQL runs via Python and bash.
Trained and deployed a multi-class neural network for product list classification.

Associate, Marketing Strategy & Analytics

Sapient Corporation

Jul 2015 — Jul 2016

Toronto, ON

Feature engineering from varied datasets in Python and R.
k-means and NMF clustering for unsupervised user segmentation.
Logistic regression to predict user temperament from survey data.
Automated dashboard production using SQL and VBA.