Kristopher Overholt

Kristopher Overholt is a highly experienced professional with a diverse background in academia and industry, specializing in data science, product management, and teaching.

With over a decade of experience, Kristopher has showcased a strong passion and success in teaching others, making them experts in data analysis and product development, as well as researching and prototyping new technologies in Python, R, Spark, and Hadoop.

His expertise also extends to creating and delivering technical content like presentations, sample projects, webinars, blog posts, and tutorials, and engaging with customers to understand their challenges and deliver value.

Apart from his data science and teaching roles, Kristopher has made significant contributions in DevOps, engineering, automated testing, solution architecting, product marketing, and documentation.

Kristopher is well-versed in data science workflows for both open-source users and enterprise organizations, covering areas such as dependency management, data loading, exploratory analysis, visualization, machine learning, and model deployment.

His educational background includes a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin, an M.S. in Fire Protection Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and a B.S. in Fire Protection Engineering Technology from the University of Houston-Downtown.

Kristopher's professional journey includes roles such as Senior Sales Engineer at Coiled, Sales and Solution Engineer at Algorithmia, Solutions Engineer at RStudio PBC, Senior Product Manager / Software Engineer at Anaconda, Inc., and Fire Protection Engineer / Software Engineer at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

He has also been involved in positions like Graduate Student Researcher / Software Engineer at Southwest Research Institute, Graduate Research Assistant / Software Engineer at the University of Texas at Austin, Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Houston-Downtown, Summer Undergraduate Researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and Fire Alarm Technician at OMNI Fire and Security.