Austin W. H. Purdie

I architect systems and develop software for Zions Bancorporation to make model development easier and automate performance monitoring for the bank’s suite of deposit portfolio models for stress testing and asset liability management. The tools I’m using most at work right now are Python, SQL, and Azure DevOps. In Python, I use scikit-learn and torch to build predictive models.

I earned a master’s degree in statistics and a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the University of Utah in 2023 and 2021 respectively. I wrote my master’s thesis on the application of causal inference to examine the relationship between deposit product pricing and deposit volume attrition.

Lifelong learning is something that has always been important to me and so I’m always looking for ways to expand my skillset. Recently, I’ve been learning how to do LLM inference & run agents on my own hardware and working toward my Google Cloud Platform Associate Cloud Engineer certification.

Outside of work, I spend a lot of time practicing the piano (currently working on Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier Prelude and Fugue in D Minor BVW 851 and Brahm’s 2 Rhapsodies, Op. 79 No. 2 in G Minor with my teacher), tinkering with my home lab, and getting lost in my favorite video games.