Alan Gersch
Specialist Master in Deloitte\'s Applied AI practice, Software Engineer, Data Scientist, Astronomer
- Role
- Specialist Master at 德勤
- Location
- Washington, DC, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Alan Gersch
I am a Software Engineer and Data Scientist with an extensive background in software engineering, Computer Science and Astrophysics. Earned a PhD in Astronomy for research focused on developing and implementing algorithms for computational modeling of comets, as well as an MS in Computer Science. My recent work has focused on leveraging NLP & ML to improve and support federal government clients, implementing scientific algorithms, data engineering and data science. Extensive experience as a full stack developer. University teaching experience and excellent public speaker and presenter.
Experience
Specialist Master
Aug 2018 — Present · Rosslyn, VA, US
As a Specialist Master in the S&A Analytics and Cognitive line, Applied AI capability, of Deloitte\'s federal practice, I serve as an Elasticsearch expert supporting a major federal agency\'s FOIA (Freedom Of Information Act) modernization project, leveraging Elasticsearch capabilities, data science, NLP, graph algorithms and Python to improve the FOIA search and review processes.In other roles: Built Python APIs in a microservices architecture on a DSE Cassandra graph and data analytics system, in a Dockerized Kubernetes AWS environment. Designed EFK (Elasticsearch-Fluentd-Kibana) logging stack for the system. Lead data modeler/data engineer on graph analytics project. Composed Gremlin graph queries to reveal connections between disparate data sources.
Education
University of Maryland
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Astronomy and Astrophysics
Columbia University
Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science
Cornell University
BA & BS, Physics & Computer Science
Skills
- Software Development
- Trading Systems
- Data Feeds
- Lecturing
- Spectroscopy
- Java
- Idl Programming
- Astrophysics
- Astronomy
- Sybase
- Mathematical Modeling
- Computer Vision
- Unix Shell Scripting
- C++ Language
- Research
- Computer Science
- Oracle
- Algorithms
- Jewish Studies
- Scientific Computing
- Jewish History
- Robotics
- Powerpoint
- Programming
- Web Development
- C++
- Javascript
- Sql
- Linux
- Perl
- Physics
- Databases
- Data Analysis
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