About Me

Posted on June 16, 2023  •  1 minutes  • 187 words

I’m a Data Scientist, Python developer and and all-around nerd, living in the Washington, DC area, committed to doing well by doing good.

I believe the data speak for themselves, but mostly they’re asking questions.

I’m skeptical of AI and ML, less so because of the ethics than because honestly a logistic regression or a decision tree would have achieved the same result nine times out of ten.

I breathe in Python and dream in SQL (and am consequently one of the dozen or so people in the world who genuinely loves SQLAlchemy ).

Thanks to my kid (pictured riding “seagull”), I’m a huge fan of Minecraft, and a lot of my side-projects are around modding and exploring the Minecraft data structures.

While I have strong opinions about Linux, software licenses, programming paradigms, agile frameworks and style guides, but I try to keep them to myself.

I have a Doctorate in Physics, specializing in nonlinear dynamics and network theory, and I’ve been employed as a Data Scientist since 2013 (having volunteered as one for four years before that).

For professional inquiries, please contact me through LinkedIn .