University of Wisconsin-Madison

The University of Texas at Arlington

Lead Open Source Engineer at Coiled

Working on Dask to make distributed computing in Python easy and Coiled to make cloud computing easy.

Coiled

Lead Open Source Engineer

Quansight

Software Engineer

Collaborated with data scientists and software engineers to scale data analysis pipelines on distributed cloud platforms

Support Engineer

- Built a machine learning pipeline to automate both classification and regression tasks on a 2 TB dataset
- Developed an open source Python package that implements a Bayesian statistical deconvolution algorithm
- Implemented a data processing system to extract analysis-ready datasets and ensure quality data selections
- Utilized a distributed computing cluster to manage workflows consisting of upwards of 15,000 tasks
- Presented work regularly at national and international conferences
- Engineered and deployed a convolutional neural network to classify images collected from a global network of smart phone cameras with an accuracy of 95%
- Developed strong written and verbal communication skills working as a member of a large scientific collaboration

Research Assistant

Conduct lecture-style discussions and lead labs for undergraduate students taking physics courses at UW.

Teaching Assistant

Helped develop a time-of-flight detector for an upgrade to the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. Contributed to and maintained the analysis code base used within the research group. Performed analysis on data collected in our lab in order to help guide future lab activities.

James Bourbeau