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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.…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.

Daniel Cooper

Data Scientist, AI Engineer, Architect, +2

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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.…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.

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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.

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Work Experience

Senior AI Solution Engineer at Instacart

March 1, 2023 - Present

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 at UnitedHealth Group

November 1, 2017 - September 1, 2019

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.

Senior Data Scientist at UnitedHealth Group

September 1, 2019 - March 1, 2023

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.