Sophia Cummings
@sophia.cummings
Vetted expertData & AI · West Loisburgh, Suriname
Applied Scientist. Turning messy data into products companies can trust.
Packages
Fixed scope and fixed price. Order an outcome, not hours.
Data pipeline audit
$1,100A focused, fixed-scope engagement delivering a clear outcome. Includes a kickoff call, the work itself, and a walkthrough of results.
ML model prototype
$3,400A focused, fixed-scope engagement delivering a clear outcome. Includes a kickoff call, the work itself, and a walkthrough of results.
About
Sophia Cummings is a Applied Scientist with 11+ years of experience turning messy data into products companies can trust. Recent engagements have focused on Machine Learning, Deep Learning and SQL. Based in West Loisburgh, Suriname, Sophia works with startups and scale-ups that need senior expertise without a full-time hire.
Problems I solve
• Building recommendation and personalization systems • Integrating LLMs into real product workflows • Designing data warehouses and ETL that scale
Selected work
Real outcomes, not promises.
Rebuilt a recommendation engine
+22% conversionReplaced a rules-based system with an ML pipeline serving real-time personalized recommendations.
Cut model inference cost
−45% costOptimized and quantized models and right-sized infrastructure without hurting accuracy.
Experience
Applied Scientist
2022 to nowEmerging Systems · West Loisburgh, Suriname
Cut cloud spend 40% in six months
Worked directly with leadership on the problems that mattered most to the business.
Senior Data & AI
2013 to 2016IFS · West Loisburgh, Suriname
Cut cloud spend 40% in six months
Worked directly with leadership on the problems that mattered most to the business.
Education
University of Dhaka
MBA, Business Administration
2011 to 2015
Languages
Reviews
★★★★★ 5.0 (1)Responsive, reliable and a pleasure to collaborate with.