Andrew Simonson

Data scientist at Ecolab and a graduate student at RIT. I build end-to-end decision machines: from data pipelines that process scale, to epistemic models which understand, to user interfaces that convey.

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Now

September 2026

At work
Primary model developer on RushReady at Ecolab: explainable anomaly detection, plus brand-configurable recommendations for quick-service restaurants, all running on a near-real-time Delta Live Tables platform.
At school
M.S. in Data Science at Rochester Institute of Technology, focused on probability theory, statistical learning, and Bayesian methods. Capstone in fall 2026.
At home
Running a two-GPU homelab that serves Mixture-of-Experts models to coding agents over local endpoints, and using the same rig to fine-tune small models.
On the shelf
  • The Rational Optimist
  • Project Hail Mary
  • Freakonomics
  • The Accidental Superpower
  • The Martian
All reviews

Selected work

Everything

  1. AI Homelab and Self Hosted Web ToolingA self-hosted cluster serving Mixture-of-Experts models beyond their rated VRAM and independent web services
  2. Subatomic Particle Tracing and Anomaly ControlMy Master's Capstone: Building a Diffusion Cloud Chamber and using stereo reconstruction to classify Muons and Alpha/Beta particles.

What now?

I wasn't really expecting anyone to read this far. If you're looking for shared resources you've taken a wrong turn.

From here, we'll rekindle the future.

Pepsi AddictIf you can read this you are too close to the monitorThey took my blood but it wasn't DNA, it was USABob the Builder: can we build it?

Seraphim over a globe