I build teams, quantitative applications, and software tools that make complex systems simpler and easier to manage.
Some highlights of my nearly 20-year career include:
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Launching Tested Minds, a boutique quantitative application development consultancy. Clients include the Johns Hopkins Institute for Computational Medicine, Guaranteed Rate, Pearson, 8th Light, and Cognitect.
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Building a custom PaaS at Outpace Systems based on Docker and AWS.
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Learning about Character Strengths and Virtues as the VP of Engineering at GetSet, an education startup helping college students be more successful.
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Leading a team of amazing people at DRW Trading, where I was first introduced to graph databases, network science, and complex systems.
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Learning about startups and product development while living in Beijing for 9 months as the tech lead of Go (née Cruise) - a continuous integration / continuous deployment server.
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Learning the Socratic Method by teaching Object-Oriented programming bootcamps with a master, Fred George.
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Porting SES - an ascent / entry engineering simulator for the space shuttle - from running only on Sun Fire’s to a MacBook Pro.
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Learning systems engineering at Lockheed Martin from the team that built IAFIS for the FBI.
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Learning the differences between presenting information and improving people’s performance at the Learning Systems Institute from Ian Douglas and Scott Schaffer.
I have spoken at several international software conferences over the years including OOPSLA 2007, Agile 2007, SCNA 2009, SpeakerConf 2011, and One Dev Day 2012 in Detroit.
As a consultant and software developer, my interests are in:
- Building, managing, and exploring complex systems.
- Deliberate practice, apprenticeship, and growing great teams over time.
- System development in Clojure, R, Matlab, Ruby, and Java.
- Polyglot persistence, esp. solving network / graph problems using a relational / graph DB hybrid.
- Data science, particularly network science and network analytics.
Contact me if I can be of assistance.