A data scientist
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About Me

I architect scalable AI infrastructure and machine learning platforms, specializing in building the systems that power modern AI applications. With experience leading MLOps initiatives and developing cloud-native solutions, I focus on creating robust, efficient platforms that enable AI innovation.

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My

Skills

Here are some of my skills where I've turned knowledge into expertise, making things happen.

Machine Learning Operations

Extensive experience building and optimizing ML infrastructure at scale, including end-to-end MLOps pipelines, model deployment automation, and training optimization. Specialized in AWS SageMaker, custom training solutions, and distributed systems for large-scale ML workloads.

Cloud Architecture

Deep expertise in cloud-native architectures, particularly AWS services including EC2, ECS, EMR, SageMaker, and serverless technologies. Proven track record of building scalable, cost-efficient infrastructure for high-performance ML systems and data platforms.

AI/ML Engineering

Strong background in implementing and optimizing AI systems, including LLMs, causal inference models, and custom ML solutions. Experience with model deployment, inference optimization, and building HIPAA-compliant AI workflows for healthcare applications.

Data Platform Engineering

Expertise in designing and implementing modern data platforms using technologies like dbt, Spark, and AWS Glue. Skilled in building data lakehouses, ETL pipelines, and maintaining data quality at scale through automated testing and monitoring frameworks.

My

Projects

Here are some of my projects where I've turned code into cool, functional stuff.

Professional Portfolio Platform

A modern portfolio site built with Next.js and TypeScript, showcasing AI and ML infrastructure projects through an optimized React application.

React

TypeScript

Next.js

TailwindCSS

MDX

Vercel

Agentic AI Clinical Documentation Pipeline

Serverless AI pipeline that transforms patient conversations into clinical documentation using AWS's AI services for automated medical transcription, SOAP note generation, and medical entity extraction.

Amazon Bedrock

Amazon Transcribe Medical

Amazon Comprehend Medical

AWS Step Functions

Apache Iceberg

AWS Athena

AWS S3

Serverless

AWS SNS

AWS Chatbot

AWS Cloudwatch

Modern Serverless Data Platform

A modern data lakehouse architecture leveraging Apache Iceberg and AWS services to create a scalable, serverless data platform with automated deployment and governance.

Apache Iceberg

Data Lakehouse

AWS Lake Formation

AWS Glue

AWS Athena

dbt

GitHub Actions

Docker

AWS ECR

AWS ECS

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

AWS CDK

AWS RDS

My Experience

Here are some of my work experiences where I've turned challenges into accomplishments, making things happen.

Belle

2023 - 2024

Director of Artificial Intelligence

Advanced diabetic foot care through AI innovation, engineering intelligent systems for clinical documentation and care optimization. Built the company's first MLOps platform and modern data lakehouse while architecting HIPAA-compliant workflows with Amazon Bedrock that transformed patient interactions into structured medical insights.

Healthfirst

2022 - 2023

Lead Data Scientist & Senior Manager

Spearheaded enterprise-wide MLOps initiatives, reducing model deployment time from weeks to days. Led development of innovative LLM database query assistant, enabling natural language interaction with healthcare data systems.

Aetna, a CVS Health Company

2020 - 2022

Senior Data Scientist

Led strategic analytics projects in clinical product development, launching data science campaigns with $7.1M annual savings. Developed Enhanced Maternity Program serving 9.7M lives with $37M annual revenue.

Blue Cross Blue Shield

2018 - 2020

Data Scientist

Developed provider cost efficiency metrics and led implementation of health data exchange system processing 15.2M+ records. Created visualization dashboards for clinical quality metrics and network optimization.

Contact Me

Have a question or want to work together? Send me a message using the form.

contact@shawn-albert.com

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