David Flasterstein

David Flasterstein is a skilled data professional with experience as a Data Scientist at DrivenData since September 2024 and previously served as a Machine Learning Engineer at Amazon from April 2019 to August 2024. At Amazon, David advanced a vision transformer model to classify product images across 75 new types, significantly processing over 1 billion images, and developed data visualizations for furniture items, conducting A/B tests that improved user engagement. Additional accomplishments include innovating a method for generating product dimensions images, which contributed to a $50 million revenue boost, and establishing quality assurance processes for over 50,000 images. Earlier, David worked as an Associate Legislative Assistant to Representative David Hackney, facilitating the passage of three bills, and created an educational video game using machine learning for Democracy Tycoon. David holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science and a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Computer Science from Washington University in St. Louis.