Top Talent like James are on Pangea
Pangea, a YC company, connects companies with fractional talent. Fractional hiring allows companies to move faster and work with more specialized talent, while giving talent more flexibility and independence. If you are talent open to fractional work, apply here. If you’re a company looking for high-quality fractional talent, learn more here.James Giuffre
AI & Machine Learning Engineer
scikit-learn
PyTorch
pandas
Matplotlib
SQL
Github
R
Git
Python
Excel
Scikit-learn
Pandas
AI + ML Engineer | Research + Venture Analyst |
Recent grad from Binghamton University. Studied Math w/ a focus in , Stats + Data Science. Applied ML experience through academic research.
Also served as a Venture Analyst sourcing deep-tech startups and supporting GTM efforts for studio company.
Projects
Testing Technical Analysis on Bitcoin
Testing Technical Analysis on Bitcoin, Binghamton, NY | Team Lead Sep. 2025 – Dec. 2025 ▪ Built a data pipeline processing 100K+ Bitcoin price observations into sequential inputs and candlestick charts for LSTMs and CNNs, respectively ▪ Designed and fine-tuned a pretrained ResNet-18 CNN in PyTorch and Fast.ai to predict short-term price direction from candlestick images, benchmarked alongside the team's LSTM models ▪ Found no model meaningfully outperformed a naive baseline, consistent with weak-form market efficiency and supported the broader study’s thesis against technical analysisSee MoreMusic Sequence Analyzer
Music Sequence Analyzer, Binghamton, NY | Backend Lead Jan. 2026 – May 2026 ▪ Collected a ~5,000-track MP3 dataset via SpotDL, ahead of Spotify API endpoint deprecation, handling multi-key authentication, rate limits, and thread optimization ▪ Built an audio feature-extraction pipeline replicating aggregated methods from academic literature ▪ Evaluated triplet-loss contrastive learning: chose feature-vector similarity for per-feature explainabilitySee MoreEvaluating Predictive Performance Across ML
Evaluating Predictive Performance Across ML, Binghamton, NY | Team Member Sep. 2025 – Dec. 2025 ▪ Compared logistic regression, decision trees, random forests, and neural networks (scikit-learn, Fast.ai) ▪ Engineered and preprocessed features using label encoding, scaling, and stepwise variable selection ▪ Tuned thresholds for 99% recall; complex models showed minimal gains over logistic regressionSee MoreWork History
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Venture Analyst Intern
ARC Capital Management▪ Sourced and screened 20+ deep-tech startups (AI infrastructure, quantum computing, agentic AI), evaluating PMF, financials, tech, and team, and prepared and presented IC memos to managing partners ▪ Partnered with SecureIQ AI's founding team (ARC studio company) to take its AI product to market from zero, building the sales pipeline and running pre-sales from user discovery through product demosT
Research Assistant
The Research Foundation for SUNYJun 2024 - May 2026 • 2 yrs▪ Co-developed a hybrid networked SEIR epidemic model in which GPT-4o-mini agents generate daily willingness-to-comply scores from demographic, socioeconomic, epidemic, and policy context ▪ Built hourly weighted contact networks from raw proximity logs in 6 real-world settings (e.g., hospital, schools, MIT campus); benchmarked LLM agents against no-behavior and random baselines to isolate the LLM's effect ▪ Showed LLM agents reproduced real-world COVID-19 disparity patterns without hand-coded rules, with attack rates falling from 87.6% for low-income to 31.1% for high-income agents, consistent with observational dataM
Trusts & Estates Paralegal Intern
Moritt Hock & Hamroff LLPJun 2025 - Aug 2025 • 3 mos▪ Developed Python scripts using regex and string processing to automate formatting and citation of deposition transcripts, cutting processing time by 70% ▪ Analyzed financial documents, deposition transcripts, and case records to build chronologies and draft legal filingsE
Lead Tutor
Educational Opportunity Program (EOP), BinghamtonJul 2023 - Sep 2024 • 1 yr 3 mos▪ Mentored a team of 5 tutors through structured feedback sessions, increasing sessions booked by 40% ▪ Tutored 50+ pre-freshman students in pre-calc and study strategies, contributing to a 98% first-year retention rateEducation
B
Binghamton University
Bachelor of Arts, Mathematics, Statistics & Data Science2026How Pangea Works
Effortlessly discover top talent
We've distilled the candidate search from endless hours down to just a few minutes. Using Pangea's AI-powered search tools, you can find top fractional talent able to take on your next project. Our system looks at your company's niche and your needs to find the perfect match faster than any traditional hiring platform.Start working with talent today
The top talent on Pangea is ready to get started with you right now. You can message or hire a candidate right from their profile page and start assigning work as soon as they respond. And the best part? Pangea's fractional contract structure lets you start small and ramp up as your needs change, keeping your costs manageable and your team's capabliities flexible.Track work and invoices in one place
Assign tasks, track progress, and complete invoices all on Pangea. We've combined every part of the hiring process into one platform to eliminate the miscommunication that's unavoidable on other freelance platforms. We even send out 1099s to your contractors at the end of the year!Talk with a Talent Expert
Members of our team are available to help you speed through the hiring process.
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AI + ML Engineer | Research + Venture Analyst |
Recent grad from Binghamton University. Studied Math w/ a focus in , Stats + Data Science. Applied ML experience through academic research.
Also served as a Venture Analyst sourcing deep-tech startups and supporting GTM efforts for studio company.
Talk with a Talent Expert
Members of our team are available to help you speed through the hiring process.Available NowBook a Call
Top Talent like James are on Pangea
Pangea, a YC company, connects companies with fractional talent. Fractional hiring allows companies to move faster and work with more specialized talent, while giving talent more flexibility and independence. If you are talent open to fractional work, apply here. If you’re a company looking for high-quality fractional talent, learn more here.James Giuffre
AI & Machine Learning Engineer
scikit-learn
PyTorch
pandas
Matplotlib
SQL
Github
R
Git
Python
Excel
Scikit-learn
Pandas
Projects
Testing Technical Analysis on Bitcoin
Testing Technical Analysis on Bitcoin, Binghamton, NY | Team Lead Sep. 2025 – Dec. 2025 ▪ Built a data pipeline processing 100K+ Bitcoin price observations into sequential inputs and candlestick charts for LSTMs and CNNs, respectively ▪ Designed and fine-tuned a pretrained ResNet-18 CNN in PyTorch and Fast.ai to predict short-term price direction from candlestick images, benchmarked alongside the team's LSTM models ▪ Found no model meaningfully outperformed a naive baseline, consistent with weak-form market efficiency and supported the broader study’s thesis against technical analysisMusic Sequence Analyzer
Music Sequence Analyzer, Binghamton, NY | Backend Lead Jan. 2026 – May 2026 ▪ Collected a ~5,000-track MP3 dataset via SpotDL, ahead of Spotify API endpoint deprecation, handling multi-key authentication, rate limits, and thread optimization ▪ Built an audio feature-extraction pipeline replicating aggregated methods from academic literature ▪ Evaluated triplet-loss contrastive learning: chose feature-vector similarity for per-feature explainabilityEvaluating Predictive Performance Across ML
Evaluating Predictive Performance Across ML, Binghamton, NY | Team Member Sep. 2025 – Dec. 2025 ▪ Compared logistic regression, decision trees, random forests, and neural networks (scikit-learn, Fast.ai) ▪ Engineered and preprocessed features using label encoding, scaling, and stepwise variable selection ▪ Tuned thresholds for 99% recall; complex models showed minimal gains over logistic regressionWork History
A
Venture Analyst Intern
ARC Capital Management▪ Sourced and screened 20+ deep-tech startups (AI infrastructure, quantum computing, agentic AI), evaluating PMF, financials, tech, and team, and prepared and presented IC memos to managing partners ▪ Partnered with SecureIQ AI's founding team (ARC studio company) to take its AI product to market from zero, building the sales pipeline and running pre-sales from user discovery through product demosT
Research Assistant
The Research Foundation for SUNYJun 2024 - May 2026 • 2 yrs▪ Co-developed a hybrid networked SEIR epidemic model in which GPT-4o-mini agents generate daily willingness-to-comply scores from demographic, socioeconomic, epidemic, and policy context ▪ Built hourly weighted contact networks from raw proximity logs in 6 real-world settings (e.g., hospital, schools, MIT campus); benchmarked LLM agents against no-behavior and random baselines to isolate the LLM's effect ▪ Showed LLM agents reproduced real-world COVID-19 disparity patterns without hand-coded rules, with attack rates falling from 87.6% for low-income to 31.1% for high-income agents, consistent with observational dataM
Trusts & Estates Paralegal Intern
Moritt Hock & Hamroff LLPJun 2025 - Aug 2025 • 3 mos▪ Developed Python scripts using regex and string processing to automate formatting and citation of deposition transcripts, cutting processing time by 70% ▪ Analyzed financial documents, deposition transcripts, and case records to build chronologies and draft legal filingsE
Lead Tutor
Educational Opportunity Program (EOP), BinghamtonJul 2023 - Sep 2024 • 1 yr 3 mos▪ Mentored a team of 5 tutors through structured feedback sessions, increasing sessions booked by 40% ▪ Tutored 50+ pre-freshman students in pre-calc and study strategies, contributing to a 98% first-year retention rateEducation
B
Binghamton University
Bachelor of Arts, Mathematics, Statistics & Data Science2026How Pangea Works
Effortlessly discover top talent
We've distilled the candidate search from endless hours down to just a few minutes. Using Pangea's AI-powered search tools, you can find top fractional talent able to take on your next project. Our system looks at your company's niche and your needs to find the perfect match faster than any traditional hiring platform.Start working with talent today
The top talent on Pangea is ready to get started with you right now. You can message or hire a candidate right from their profile page and start assigning work as soon as they respond. And the best part? Pangea's fractional contract structure lets you start small and ramp up as your needs change, keeping your costs manageable and your team's capabliities flexible.Track work and invoices in one place
Assign tasks, track progress, and complete invoices all on Pangea. We've combined every part of the hiring process into one platform to eliminate the miscommunication that's unavoidable on other freelance platforms. We even send out 1099s to your contractors at the end of the year!Talk with a Talent Expert
Members of our team are available to help you speed through the hiring process.Available NowBook a Call
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