SEEKING CONTRACT WORK | Forward-Deployed Data Scientist | Canada / Remote worldwide

Most of the execution of data science is now doable with an LLM. It can't find unmapped physical data, architect, do a security review, or survive a regulator.

That's the part I do. 15+ years shipping ML inside messy, regulated operations - energy, maritime, automotive, mineral rights, healthcare. on-site or virtual, from "nobody knows what the right question is" through to deployment.

Selected work:

  - LLM legal-document extraction (land runsheets): 3-day due-diligence cycles to 15 minutes.
  - Real-time emissions detection on industrial smokestacks: $75K-per-incident fines avoided.
  - Predictive maintenance integrated into a German automaker's production line: $20M+ recall exposure avoided.
  - Routing engine for on-demand delivery (CVRP-PD-TW, constrained cloud): doubled capacity, 15-minute windows.
  - Real-time conversational AI with emotion recognition: became the technical foundation of a product.
  - Corrosion detection (API 571) from imagery and structured light: mobile inspection, weeks to 2 days.

I'm taking one new project this quarter. First two weeks are paid: I'll dig into the data, talk to the people who own the problem, and tell you what's worth building and what isn't. If you like it, we keep going.

Good fit: regulated, operationally messy, data nobody has mapped. Call centers, maintenance shops, anywhere the knowledge lives in tickets, call notes, or the heads of the people who've been there years.

Not interested: gambling, ads/surveillance, payday loans, rent-to-own.

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