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Daniel Cooper

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I'm Daniel Cooper, a senior AI/ML leader with 10+ years of experience building and scaling production-grade AI systems across grocery retail marketplaces and global health care enterprise systems.

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I’m Daniel Cooper, a senior AI/ML leader with 10+ years of experience building and scaling production-grade AI systems across grocery retail marketplaces and global health care enterprise systems. I specialize in Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), machine learning at scale, MLOps, and cloud-native AI platforms. I’m a hands-on technical leader and solution architect recognized for translating complex business problems into high-impact AI solutions that drive revenue growth, operational efficiency, cost reduction, and risk mitigation in regulated and high-throughput environments.

I’m passionate about shaping AI strategy, governance, platform standards, and tooling decisions at scale, partnering with product and engineering teams to deliver end-to-end AI lifecycles from problem framing to deployment and enterprise adoption.

  • 9 years' experience
  • Joined February 2026

Languages

  • EnglishFluent

Industry experience

  • Healthcare
  • Retail
  • Software & Internet
  • Professional Services
  • Life Sciences

Work experience

Senior AI Solution Engineer · InstacartMar 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 9 mos

Led delivery of enterprise-scale AI and Generative AI solutions across Instacart's grocery marketplace, applying Python, SQL, ML, transformer architectures, and decision intelligence to drive customer growth, retailer efficiency, and operational scalability.

Senior Data Scientist · UnitedHealth GroupSep 2019 – Mar 2023 · 3 yrs 7 mos

Designed production-grade ML systems for health care cost, utilization, and risk prediction; built pipelines using Python, SQL, scikit-learn, XGBoost, LightGBM; applied supervised learning, ensemble methods, model evaluation, and deployment to reduce costs, mitigate risk, improve member engagement, and support patient outcomes.

Senior Data Scientist · UnitedHealth GroupNov 2017 – Sep 2019 · 1 yr 11 mos

Designed and evaluated end-to-end production-grade ML lifecycles for health care cost, utilization, and risk prediction; built end-to-end ML pipelines; performed advanced EDA, hypothesis testing, cohort analysis, and feature engineering; implemented governance and regulatory-compliant AI practices to support enterprise decision-making.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science · University of Texas at Austin2011 – 2015

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