I led the data science team at Sparkgeo. I’m an editor at pyOpenSci and a core contributor to MermaidSeg.
Looking for Senior Data Science, ML Engineering and Computer Vision roles, Remote or in Canada
| Title | Description | Categories |
|---|---|---|
| Overture Places signals pipeline | A Spark, Iceberg and Airflow pipeline that scores whether tens of millions of businesses are still operating, for the Overture Maps Foundation. | geospatial, machine learning, MLOps, data engineering |
| MermaidSeg | Core contributor (250+ commits) to an open-source coral segmentation repo using DINOv3. | computer vision, open source, conservation, MLOps, data engineering |
| Coral classification at scale | Image classifiers for coral growth forms and benthic attributes, trained on 500,000+ images with 14M+ annotations. | computer vision, machine learning, conservation |
| MERMAID Concept Bottleneck Demo | A public Gradio demo of MERMAID coral segmentation, running on Hugging Face ZeroGPU. | computer vision, conservation |
| Rooftop and structures semantic segmentation | Led an end-to-end computer vision project that segments rooftops and new constructions from aerial imagery, temporal data and LiDAR, for an insurance client. | computer vision, geospatial |
I spent four years leading a remote team of 2 to 5 people across time zones, and chaired the company’s AI Working Group.
Lauren has a great ability to take difficult data science problems and turn them into practical, production-ready solutions.
Dustin Sampson, CTO, Sparkgeo
She took her role seriously, ensuring open communication between our team and senior management, and advocating to ensure our team’s needs were met.
Gordon Logie, who reported to me at Sparkgeo
She is a thoughtful and engaged leader who genuinely cares about building strong teams, developing people, and helping her team succeed.
Isabel Tang, People & Culture, Sparkgeo