John F Carter

Software Developer | Scientist | Data Scientist

jfcarter2358@gmail.com

630.818.6771

Skills

C#
C++
DevOps
Distributed Computing
Docker
Erlang
Golang
HTML and CSS

Infrastructure Engineering
Kubernetes
Linux Shell Scripting
Machine Learning
Model Operations
Python
Scientific Computing
Windows Shell Scripting
Natural Language Processing

Projects

Open-source model operations suite
Python package to enable inline Bash scripting in Python
Lightweight database system
Site hosting framework
JSON with comments Python implementation
Lightweight logging alternative to the ELK Stack
Galaxy classification with a neural network
Visual stimulus determination from FMRI scans using a genetic algorithm
Custom stock Java graphics engine/game

Journal

Work Experience

Senior Platform Engineer

Rad AI

&May 2023 - Present

[Remote] San Francisco, CA

Improved processes, tooling, deployments, and infrastructure as part of the Platform team

Software Engineer

Snowflake

Feb 2023 - May 2023

[Remote] San Mateo, CA

Improved stability and performance as part of the Traffic and Edge team (previously critical services)

Software Engineer

Leapyear

Dec 2021 - Feb 2023

[Remote] San Francisco, CA

Improved capabilities as a part of the infrastructure team

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

ModelOp

Jan 2021 - Dec 2021

Chicago, IL

Continuing with Field Engineering while also building out robust DevOps capabilities

Field Engineer

ModelOp

Oct 2019 - Jan 2021

Chicago, IL

Implementing ModelOp's software into large-scale enterprise systems

Field Engineer

ModelOp

Feb 2019 - Oct 2019

Chicago, IL

Improving ModelOp's model operations software

Computational Political Science Research Assistant

Harvard University Department of Government

Mar 2018 - Feb 2020

[Remote] Cambridge, MA

Implementing and developing natural language processing (NLP) algorithms to perform analysis on the International Criminal Court (ICC) case against the Philippines for its war on drugs.

Software Development Research Assistant

Cline Center for Advanced Social Research

Aug 2016 - Feb 2020

[Remote] Champaign, IL

Advancing the quality and capability of automated political conflict event coding as well as developing improved textual geo-coding software in comparison to current approaches.

Alexa Application Developer/Data Scientist

Bold Insight

May 2018 - Feb 2019

Oak Brook, IL

Leveraged NLP to develop a proprietary Alexa application as well as performed data science tasks against a large-scale healthcare database.

Owner/Programming Lead

Multiverse Game Studios

Aug 2014 - Present

Wheaton, IL

Developing an in-house game engine with experience building games in custom and pre-built engines.

Education

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

2014 - 2018

B.S. Physics, concentration astrophysics, minor informatics

Publications and Presentations

NIH Bioinformatics Tooling Publication

N/A

2021

Multi-modality Machine Learning Predicting Parkinson’s Disease

Cline Center Historical Phoenix Event Data Publication

Cline Center for Advanced Social Research