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Jacob Nadal
Data Scientist & NLP Engineer

I build machine learning pipelines, dashboards, and LLM apps that turn messy data into decisions — backed by a maths and engineering foundation.

Vancouver, BC jacob24@rogers.com
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Government PDFs automated with an NLP pipeline
End-to-end
From data cleaning to deployed models & dashboards
MDS + BASc
Data Science (UBC) · Math & Engineering (Queen's)
About

Turning data into decisions

I'm a data scientist and computational linguist with a maths and engineering background. I build systems that hold up in production, from framing the problem to modelling data and shipping tools people actually use.

I've cut government document review from hours to minutes with NLP, built Power BI models that sharpened forecasting and workforce planning, and shipped LLM apps for summarization and moderation. I'm now after a data science or ML role in Vancouver.

Experience

Where I've worked

Roles across data science, analytics, and engineering.

Vancouver, BC

NLP Engineer (Internship)

Government of British Columbia — Ministry of Environment
  • Built and deployed a modular NLP pipeline extracting metadata from 2,000+ scanned PDFs using ML classifiers and quantized LLMs.
  • Engineered duplicate detection (ROUGE + page-length heuristics) to flag redundant records with high precision.
  • Aligned document taxonomy and release rules with stakeholders, combining rule-based and ML classification.
Python BERT Ollama ROUGE NLP
Toronto, ON

Data Analyst

The Byng Group
  • Built a SQL-backed Quote Conversion Dashboard in Power BI that improved sales forecasting.
  • Designed a Trade Pool Model with dynamic GAP calculations to optimize workforce allocation.
  • Created a drill-through "Duckie Flow" model to track orders and surface bottlenecks.
SQL Power BI DAX Business Intelligence
Kingston, ON

Teaching Assistant

Queen's University
  • Led weekly Calculus and Linear Algebra tutorials for 40+ students, plus course materials and grading.
Mathematics Teaching
Toronto, ON

Data Analyst Intern

Peerage Capital
  • Analyzed brokerage transaction data in Excel to visualize portfolio performance.
  • Ran self-storage and stairlift market research to support investment decisions.
Excel Market Research Financial Analysis
Projects

Selected work

How I approach data, models, and delivery.

Skills

Tools I work with

// languages

PythonSQLRC / C++JavaDAXMATLABLaTeX

// data & analytics

Power BIPandasNumPyPySparkDaskSQL ServerExcel

// machine learning & nlp

PyTorchHugging FaceTransformersscikit-learnLangChainOllamaspaCyNLTK

// platforms & tools

GitDockerLinuxJupyterVS CodeRAG pipelines
Education

Academic background

Vancouver, BC

Master of Data Science, Computational Linguistics

University of British Columbia

ML and NLP focus: Supervised/unsupervised learning, parsing, sentiment analysis, and machine translation with projects in biomedical summarization, LLM pipelines, and corpus annotation.

Machine Learning NLP Computational Linguistics
Kingston, ON

Bachelor of Applied Science, Mathematics & Engineering

Queen's University · Minor in Computer Engineering

Completed five graduate-level (800) maths courses, including Stochastic Processes, Information Theory, and Stochastic Calculus for Mathematical Finance.

Mathematics Engineering Optimization
Contact

Let's talk

Open to data science and ML roles in Vancouver and remote. Hiring, or just want to talk ML and NLP? Say hello.

location
Vancouver, BC, Canada
linkedin
Jacob Nadal
github
@jnadal14