Sean Brown
Vancouver,Canada
Summary
Master of Data Science candidate (UBC, June 2026) with a BSc in Computer Science and 2+ years of experience spanning software engineering, ML pipelines, and applied research. Focused on supervised learning, feature engineering, model evaluation, and shipping ML-powered product features.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Software Developer Intern
Harris Computer
02.2025 - 09.2025
- Led development of an AI assistant embedded in an ERP system to support workflow creation via NL queries
- Built full-stack features using React, GraphQL, and Go, with production-quality practices
- Resolved a high volume of customer support tickets to enhance team efficiency
AI Researcher
Learnification Labs
05.2024 - 11.2024
- Conducted structured review of 40+ papers on LLM-generated educational content
- Co-authored a paper evaluating ChatGPT readiness for contextualized CT tasks
Data Integration Developer BI Co-op
Harris Computer
05.2023 - 12.2023
- Built reliable SQL integrations across BI and ERP systems, including transformations and schema mapping
- Implemented REST API ingestion workflows and converted raw outputs into clean, usable datasets
- Built customer-facing portals to summarize and surface key business metrics
Barista
Starbucks Coffee Company
03.2018 - 02.2023
- Employee of the Quarter 2021
Education
Master of Data Science -
University of British Columbia
06.2026
BSc - Computer Science
Simon Fraser University
12.2024
Skills
- Python
- SQL
- Scikit-learn
- XGBoost
- LightGBM
- PyTorch
- TensorFlow
- Pandas
- NumPy
- Docker
- Git
- REST APIs
- Feature engineering
- Cross-validation
- Metrics
- NLP basics
- Machine learning
Projects
- ML Chess Engine, Built a full pipeline to predict player Elo from PGN notation using 20,000 games. Best model achieved R2 0.73 train and 0.35 test, with strong feature engineering focus., github.com/SeanBrown12345
- ML Salary Estimator, Python, scikit-learn, Docker, Quarto, End-to-end reproducible classification pipeline, including modeling, evaluation, and reporting.
- SeanBrownChatBot, Fine-tuned a GPT-based assistant and deployed it via a React interface.
Timeline
Software Developer Intern
Harris Computer
02.2025 - 09.2025
AI Researcher
Learnification Labs
05.2024 - 11.2024
Data Integration Developer BI Co-op
Harris Computer
05.2023 - 12.2023
Barista
Starbucks Coffee Company
03.2018 - 02.2023
Master of Data Science -
University of British Columbia
BSc - Computer Science
Simon Fraser University