Hi there, I'm Sarah 👋

🎓 MS Data Science – Boston University ’26
AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer • AWS Certified Machine Learning Specialty • AWS Cloud Practitioner

💻 5 years as the only cloud + data person at a mental-health nonprofit (previously sales and marketing analytics @ PGA TOUR) → now shipping production-ready data pipelines and ML projects

🔭 Research I've shipped (mental-health / suicide prevention):

Drivers of Suicide – core data + engineering owner for published & submitted papers

• Location isolation patterns – custom AWS Lambda + API Gateway enrichment → HDBSCAN/k-mode on millions of GPS points
• Physical activity decline – Apple Health + Loess + AWS Random Cut Forest
• Late-night activity spikes – reusable ingestion utility (12 am–4 am risk signal)
• Financial Distress Indicators – Submitted to Suicide Research Symposium 2026
  Designed & executed embeddings + semantic similarity using secure in-house LLM pipeline (HF on EC2 in private VPC)
• Suicide-Risk Lexicon – Salesforce → Athena CI/CD pipeline for instant researcher queries

Certifications:

AWS ML Engineer • AWS ML Specialty • AWS Cloud Practitioner • Databricks Lakehouse Fundamentals • Alteryx

Tools I live in:

AWS (Lambda, Glue, EC2, SageMaker) • Python • SQL • Docker • GitHub Actions • dbt • Databricks • Streamlit • Hugging Face • Salesforce NPSP • Salesforce HealthCloud • Google Analytics

Let’s connect!

[LinkedIn] (https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-depalma-23239263/)