Data Science & Analytics · New York

Deven Panchal

sql

Data professional driving business impact across teams. Now focused on AI and AI-driven companies.

MS Applied Data Science, USC / BS Economics, UC San Diego
Deven Panchal
DP
Open to AI roles

Experience

Founder
Stealth Startup
Current · In stealth

Building an early-stage consumer product. In stealth for now — more to share soon.

Data Engineer
Rysun Labs
Prior

Rebuilt a retail client's reporting on PostgreSQL and Power BI, then delivered the regional sales analysis that showed leadership which markets were growing and which were lagging. They reallocated sales focus on the strength of it.

Data Analyst
Northrop Grumman
Prior

On the people-analytics team, wrote the SQL behind a Tableau workforce dashboard and automated it from a quarterly refresh to a daily one, giving leadership real-time visibility into key workforce metrics across divisions instead of a stale quarterly snapshot.

Selected projects

Writing

AI in 2026: A Field Guide

A six-page field guide: how modern models actually work, seventy years of AI history, where things stand in 2026, the open debates about where it’s going, and ten common misconceptions.

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Deep dive Agents vs. Workflows: How AI Agents Work Read →

Spotify Mood Recommender

A recommender built on Spark MLlib that surfaces the closest musical matches to any track across more than a million songs, served through a Django app. Built end to end, from raw data to a working product.

Spark MLlib · KNN · S3 · Django

CrimeScraper

Scraped LA Times homicide reporting and matched it against LAPD records by location, then mapped both to show where the reporting and the official record didn't line up.

BeautifulSoup · Selenium · Maps API · SQLite

Omics Imputation (USC GRIDS)

Filled the gaps in a sparse 20K by 30K genomic dataset with Markov imputation, then used PCA and clustering to pull real structure from it. Made a dataset usable that wasn't before.

PCA · DBSCAN · KNN · CorEx

Vaccination Equity

Broke down state COVID vaccination rates by race, age, and gender to show which groups the rollout was missing, turning raw public data into a clear read on where outreach was needed.

Python · pandas · visualization

Focus areas

Financial Markets

Actively manage a discretionary portfolio focused on semiconductors, AI infrastructure, and fintech, while tracking emerging market trends.

EquitiesSemis / AI Infra

Real Estate

Own and manage residential and commercial real estate, always looking for the next turnaround opportunity.

ResidentialCommercial

Commodities

Trade commodities alongside equities to play macro trends.

CommoditiesMacro

Stablecoins & Emerging Markets

Follow stablecoin adoption across emerging markets, where dollar-pegged crypto is becoming real financial infrastructure.

StablecoinsEmerging Markets

Latest on GitHub

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