David Siegel
Co-Founder Co-Chairman at Two Sigma
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Siegel is a computer scientist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist who co-founded Two Sigma, a leading quantitative investment firm, and chairs the Siegel Family Endowment. Based in New York, he has shaped the intersection of technology, data science, and finance for two decades, guiding transformations across investment management, venture capital, private equity, and insurance. His philanthropic work focuses on education, science, and technology, and he founded Siegel Family Endowment in 2011, while serving on boards and governance roles at MIT, Cornell Tech, Scratch Foundation, Khan Academy, and Stanford’s Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society. With a PhD from MIT in computer science and a BSE in electrical engineering from Princeton, he combines deep technical scholarship with strategic leadership. He has long been committed to expanding access to programming and computer science education through Scratch and related initiatives. This blend of hands-on research, industry impact, and thoughtful philanthropy defines his approach to leveraging technology for societal value.
11 years of coding experience
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at MITBSE, EECS, BSE, EECS at Princeton University
Github Skills (27)
kubeflow-pipelines8
pipeline8
filesystem7
dcos7
kubeflow7
machine-learning7
streaming6
kedro6
mlops6
snap6
textbook6
kubernetes6
tekton6
tensorflow-io6
data-science6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
dsiegel/light-go
Oct 2020 - Oct 2020
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
Knewton/docker-gc
Feb 2016 - Feb 2016
Contributions:3 pushes in 1 day
containersgarbage-collectiondocker-imagedockergarbage
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