I'm a full stack software engineer with a strong background in statistics and data science. My background was originally in nuclear physics where I wrote high performance C++ code to analyze petabytes of data and helped expand the infrastructure necessary for such analyses. After leaving academia, I founded Intoli where I've had the opportunity to build a variety of web services in-house as well as to work with dozens of other companies through contracting and consulting arrangements. I currently work at TenantBase where I lead our data science efforts and do full stack web development.
Interests
- Web Development
- Machine Learning
- Human-Computer Interfaces
Education
- PhD in High Energy Nuclear Physics, 2014
University of California, Davis - MS in High Energy Nuclear Physics, 2010
University of California, Davis - BA in Physics, 2008
Bard College
Experience
Recent Posts
- Internet Archaeology: Scraping time series data from Archive.org
A guide to scraping historical snapshots of webpages from the Archive.org Wayback Machine.
- Advanced Web Scraping: Bypassing "403 Forbidden," captchas, and more
A comprehensive guide to bypassing common web scraping obstacles.
- The stories that Hacker News removes from the front page
An analysis of which stories are removed from the front page of Hacker News due to moderator intervention.
- How many people will actually die this week because of Daylight Savings Time?
A data analysis of how many deaths the DST transition causes due to tired driving.
- Reverse Engineering the Hacker News Ranking Algorithm
A data-driven exploration of how the Hacker News ranking algorithm works.
