Steven Surgnier
Brooklyn, NY
Steven Surgnier is an adamant believer that organizations should promote the evolution of society on a sustainable course that benefits humankind. Steven is a science enthusiast. He took courses in biology and organic chemistry for fun while obtaining his Masters of Electrical Engineering. His current research interests are in representation learning. Steven lives in Brooklyn, New York with his wife Danni and son Duncan.
February 2025 - Present
October 2015 - February 2025
February 2015 - October 2015
- serve and lead a team of 4 data analysts, 5 data engineers, and 2 engineering managers
remarkable team projects:
- used unsupervised techniques to discover topics in unstructured text submitted by customers in survey feedback and customer support messages
- topic analysis was used to prioritize improvements in the product
- prototyped streaming logical decoding of postgres to redshift via kafka
September 2012 - February 2015
- hire and manage a team of 2 data analysts and 4 data engineers
remarkable team projects:
- developed streaming mini-batch loading into redshift
- common points of purchase analysis for early compromised card detection
- co-architect and co-developer of data platform
- kafka -> storm -> s3 with Avro for serialization
- EMR for hourly loading into redshift
- used machine learning to infer what actions in the first four weeks are predictive of engagement on the eighth week
- interfaced directly with the leadership team
- responsible for analysis and design of experiments
- responsible for creation and reporting of KPIs
- developed reports and dashboards in R
June 2010 - August 2012
- characterization of sram, flash and poly-fuse based memory structures
- characterization of full chip power and model generation
- characterization of configuration logic engine
- manufacturing test program
- ATE of choice is the Nextest Magnum II
Auburn University, 2010
Auburn University, 2008
May 22, 2011
IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology