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Software Engineer with experience in Python, C++, SQL, and Java

Contact Information

Name: River Bellamy

Phone: (703) 868-5354

Email: river.f.bellamy@gmail.com

Location: Berkeley, CA, open to relocation

Skills

Languages

Python, C++, SQL, Java

Libraries

Pytest, NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, Scikit-Learn, Keras, TensorFlow, SpaCy

Tools

Git, Jupyter, Docker

Professional Experience

Software Engineer, Bloomberg

January 2022 to January 2024
  • Design and build a new service to test and ensure accuracy of pricing systems serving 200 million calculations per day
  • Reimplement code from C++ to Python to facilitate updating of billing systems
  • Implement regression tests in Python to support pricing system updates
  • Collaborate both remotely and in person to achieve team objectives

STEM Tutor, Self-Employed

October 2015 to May 2021
  • Assisted up to 20 students per week with understanding material and improving grades and confidence
  • Managed business including marketing, real-time scheduling, and weekly billing
  • Ensured customer satisfaction, maintaining 4.9 star average on 228 ratings

Computer Science Teacher, Freedom High School

August 2016 to June 2017
  • Created automatic grading system for efficiently evaluating student work
  • Achieved an average AP Computer Science A exam score of 4.0 ("very well qualified")
  • Developed assignments and prepared tests designed to gauge proficiency
  • Trained students to write simple and clear Java code
Project Experience

Human Rights First – Asylum, Data Scientist

April to May 2021
  • Constructed methods using SpaCy for extracting multiple fields from court opinions achieving up to 100% accuracy
  • Lead effort to restructure code to improve readability and interactions between methods

AirBnB Price Predictor, Data Scientist

March 2021
  • Built a NLP model using Keras and Tensorflow to extract information from reviews
  • Integrated NLP model with model produced by other team members from other data

Which Van Will Take Me Farthest?, Data Scientist

November 2020
  • Used multiple regression to infer gas mileage of cargo vans from EPA-rated vehicles
  • Applied Python's statsmodels library and chose physically meaningful dimension and engine features
Education

Lambda School, Remote

Data Science, May 2021

Lambda School is a computer science & software engineering program that provides a Data Science curriculum

  • Gained hands-on experience engaging with machine learning, being able to understand unsupervised learning, natural language and neural networks

University of Virginia School of Law, Charlottesville, VA

Juris Doctor, May 2014
  • Business Manager, Virginia Journal of Social Policy and the Law

University of Delaware, Newark, DE

Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science, May 2009

Bachelor of Science, Physics and Cognitive Science, May 2009

  • Minors: Mathematics, Political Science, Philosophy
  • John K. Scoggin Senior Memorial Award for undergraduate bioinformatics research