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Denton DeLoss

Staff Solutions Architect / Staff Data Scientist / Staff Backend Platform Software Engineer

A PhD who studied how the brain integrates signal from noise, leveraging perceptual learning to improve vision in seniors. Featured in the New York Times: Focusing the Brain on Better Vision Then a career spent owning the full data from clinical trials to user behavior and platform stack supporting it end-to-end — clinical biostatistics and machine learning, backend engineering for an FDA-regulated prescription system, and now governed lakehouse architecture for regulated data at scale.

Denton meets the true definition of an enlightened engineer — high product knowledge, market knowledge, and customer empathy in addition to superior technical knowledge.

— Zain Master, Product Management Lead at Akili Interactive Labs, Inc.
The Arc
2009 — 2015
Ph.D., Cognition & Cognitive Neuroscience
UC Riverside. Multisensory integration and perceptual learning research — 7 publications, 2 patents, work featured in the New York Times.
2016 — 2019
Data Scientist
UCR Brain Game Center, RankScience, Akili. Cross-platform behavioral analytics and applied ML on clinical trial data to identify treatment-relevant patient segments.
2019 — 2020
Senior Data Scientist, Akili
Owned the biostatistics side of clinical outcomes: custom causal-inference models to quantify treatment delivery and efficacy for FDA submission.
2020 — 2023
Staff Data Scientist, Akili
Modeled real-world patient behavior with random forests, multilevel modeling, and AutoML, and built the internal Python libraries the rest of the data science team ran on.
2023 — 2026
Staff Platform Engineer, Akili
Moved into backend engineering and owned an FDA-regulated prescription order system outright — physician order, caregiver approval notice, payment and invoicing, and fulfillment via activation code, on AWS and Python.
2026 — Present
Staff Solutions Engineer, Mirion
Architecting a governed lakehouse on Azure and Databricks under HIPAA and DOE 10 CFR Part 810 — the same end-to-end ownership, now at export-controlled scale.
What I actually do
Core Stack
Python AWS Azure Databricks Spark / PySpark Unity Catalog Terraform SQL DBT PostgreSQL Redshift Docker Scala