Stefan Lazarevic

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Work Experience

Data Scientist at Avnet
August 1, 2024 - Present
Developed and deployed Databricks-based ML applications including MyPriceGuide and CostGuidance; designed Delta Lake (Bronze → Silver) pipelines; tuned CatBoost and Random Forest models; deployed with MLflow; created interactive Power BI dashboards; provisioned dedicated Databricks clusters for large-scale experimentation.
Data Scientist at SML Software
July 1, 2023 - August 31, 2024
Built a spatial machine learning model for Ontario tree species distribution; engineered Delta Lake pipelines; applied hierarchical clustering for feature selection; developed hierarchical Bayesian models with spatial random effects and tailored likelihoods; benchmarked against GLMs and Random Forests for superior predictive accuracy and interpretability.
Data Engineer at TD Bank
July 1, 2019 - July 1, 2021
Developed data pipelines in Azure Databricks for consolidating and analyzing web server logs; scaled monitoring infrastructure from 10 to 120 servers; created Oracle database objects; collaborated with the Data Science team to deliver cleaned and structured access log data for model development.
Web Developer at TD Bank
September 1, 2016 - August 1, 2019
Built REST APIs for Customer/Employee Context and Customer Prospect; wrote comprehensive unit tests; automated end-to-end tests; authored advanced Cassandra and Oracle queries; automated build and deployment processes using Jenkins; managed version control via Git.
Software Engineer at CeraIT
January 1, 2016 - August 1, 2016
Built a Java-based web crawler and scraper using JSoup; parsed and decoded scraped data; developed Java modules for MySQL storage; implemented complex SQL queries; performed debugging and functional testing.

Education

Master of Science (MSc), Data Analytics at University of Glasgow
January 1, 2021 - January 1, 2023
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Computer Science at York University
January 1, 2009 - January 1, 2013
Certified Data Scientist at University of Waterloo
January 1, 2020 - December 22, 2025

Qualifications

Certified Data Scientist
January 1, 2020 - December 22, 2025

Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Financial Services, Computers & Electronics, Government, Media & Entertainment, Professional Services