Curriculum Vitae

Zac Yauney

Entrepreneurial Web Developer & Data Scientist

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Summary

Entrepreneurial full-stack developer and data scientist with experience founding a SaaS research-annotation platform, building production machine-learning pipelines, and leading cross-functional teams. Skilled in Clojure/ClojureScript, Python, React, cloud ML tooling, and modern data engineering practices.

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Experience

Founder

thinky.dev

Aug 2024 – Present
  • Founded Thinky, a research-annotation platform that lets scholars view, highlight, and tag PDF passages for later query
  • Implemented an Electron app with Clojure/ClojureScript (Reagent / re-frame) to render PDFs and introduced an innovative windowing system

Data Scientist

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Nov 2022 – Aug 2024
Salt Lake City, UT
  • Built an XGBoost model for evaluating online advertising leads, lowering cost per conversion
  • Developed an end-to-end model to surface high-potential leaders from a 12,500-person international pool
  • Led a 4-person cross-functional team to ship a Tableau dashboard tracking new-missionary training
  • Deployed machine-learning models in the cloud with Databricks

Research Assistant

Brigham Young University

Jul 2020 – Aug 2022
Provo, UT
  • Applied deep-learning (autoencoders, U-net) and time-series analysis to predict blood-glucose from infrared spectrometry data toward a non-invasive device
  • Built a web server hosting a GIS algorithm to aid officials—including the President of Indonesia—in tsunami-evacuation planning

Full-Stack Web Developer

NetQuarry, Inc.

Apr 2015 – Nov 2017
Fullerton, CA
  • Maintained and extended a 400-user CRM system (Bidspeed) for government contractors
  • Built a system enabling rapid GSA-schedule applications, bringing in new business
  • Defined SQL schemas and views for analytics dashboards
  • Optimized performance of large SQL queries
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Education

Master of Science in Applied Mathematics (Thesis)

Brigham Young University

GPA 4.0. Thesis: “An Investigation of the Interactions of Gradient Coherence and Network Pruning in Neural Networks”.

2024
Provo, UT

Bachelor of Science in Applied & Computational Mathematics

Brigham Young University

GPA 3.9, minors in Computer Science and Physics

2022
Provo, UT
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Skills

Languages
Python Clojure JavaScript Java C#
Frameworks & Libraries
React Node.js Reagent/re-frame Electron
Data & ML
NumPy pandas SciPy sk-learn PyTorch Spark XGBoost MLflow Databricks Jupyter matplotlib SQL Tableau
Other
SQL MERN stack AI Agents
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Notable Projects

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Languages

English Native
Spanish Intermediate