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With a healthy disregard for the impossible, I transform breakthrough technologies into…

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  • Two Sigma

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Volunteer Experience

  • Mentor & teacher

    LDS church

Publications

  • Bad Data Handbook

    O'Reilly

    What is bad data? Some people consider it a technical phenomenon, like missing values or malformed records, but bad data includes a lot more. In this handbook, data expert Q. Ethan McCallum has gathered 19 colleagues from every corner of the data arena to reveal how they’ve recovered from nasty data problems.

    From cranky storage to poor representation to misguided policy, there are many paths to bad data. Bottom line? Bad data is data that gets in the way. This book explains effective…

    What is bad data? Some people consider it a technical phenomenon, like missing values or malformed records, but bad data includes a lot more. In this handbook, data expert Q. Ethan McCallum has gathered 19 colleagues from every corner of the data arena to reveal how they’ve recovered from nasty data problems.

    From cranky storage to poor representation to misguided policy, there are many paths to bad data. Bottom line? Bad data is data that gets in the way. This book explains effective ways to get around it.

    Among the many topics covered, you’ll discover how to:

    Test drive your data to see if it’s ready for analysis
    Work spreadsheet data into a usable form
    Handle encoding problems that lurk in text data
    Develop a successful web-scraping effort
    Use NLP tools to reveal the real sentiment of online reviews
    Address cloud computing issues that can impact your analysis effort
    Avoid policies that create data analysis roadblocks
    Take a systematic approach to data quality analysis

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    • Q McCallum
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  • MongoDB and PHP

    O'Reilly

    What would happen if you optimized a data store for the operations application developers actually use? You’d arrive at MongoDB, the reliable document-oriented database. With this concise guide, you’ll learn how to build elegant database applications with MongoDB and PHP.

    This book takes you through MongoDB basics such as queries, read-write operations, and administration, and then dives into MapReduce, sharding, and other advanced topics. Get out of the relational database rut, and take…

    What would happen if you optimized a data store for the operations application developers actually use? You’d arrive at MongoDB, the reliable document-oriented database. With this concise guide, you’ll learn how to build elegant database applications with MongoDB and PHP.

    This book takes you through MongoDB basics such as queries, read-write operations, and administration, and then dives into MapReduce, sharding, and other advanced topics. Get out of the relational database rut, and take advantage of a high-performing system optimized for operations and scale.

    Learn step-by-step the tools you need to build PHP applications with MongoDB
    Perform Create, Read, Update, and Delete (CRUD) operations, and learn how to perform queries to retrieve data
    Administer your database, and access and manipulate data with the MongoDB Shell
    Use functions to work with sets, arrays, and multiple documents to perform synchronous, asynchronous, and atomic operations
    Discover PHP’s community tools and libraries, and why they’re valuable
    Work with regular expressions, aggregation, MapReduce, replication, and sharding

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Patents

  • Method and System for Distributed Point of Sale Transactions

    Issued US 20110307387

    A method and system for a fully distributed on-line selling environment is presented. Any webpage can contain a program module that for each customer that view any webpage with the module embedded in it, automatically associates that customer with their corresponding shopping cart stored at a central server. The module can initiate a sale transaction for a product presented on the webpage and cause the central server to complete the purchase and fulfillment. The module automatically updates the…

    A method and system for a fully distributed on-line selling environment is presented. Any webpage can contain a program module that for each customer that view any webpage with the module embedded in it, automatically associates that customer with their corresponding shopping cart stored at a central server. The module can initiate a sale transaction for a product presented on the webpage and cause the central server to complete the purchase and fulfillment. The module automatically updates the customer shopping cart and presents updated inventory availability. The website hosting the webpages with the module do not operate any back end transaction processing or order fulfillment.

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Courses

  • Functional Programming in Scala

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Projects

  • Hugo

    Hugo is an open-source static site generator that has redefined web publishing by prioritizing speed and efficiency. Created by Steve Francia, and led by Bjørn Erik Pedersen it has grown from a specialized tool into one of the most widely adopted frameworks in the static web ecosystem. Its ability to render even the largest websites in milliseconds has made it an indispensable tool for individual developers and large-scale enterprises alike.

    The project's impact is demonstrated by its…

    Hugo is an open-source static site generator that has redefined web publishing by prioritizing speed and efficiency. Created by Steve Francia, and led by Bjørn Erik Pedersen it has grown from a specialized tool into one of the most widely adopted frameworks in the static web ecosystem. Its ability to render even the largest websites in milliseconds has made it an indispensable tool for individual developers and large-scale enterprises alike.

    The project's impact is demonstrated by its adoption by some of the world's most prominent technology and media organizations. Notable users have migrated to Hugo to achieve superior performance, security, and a more streamlined content workflow. This includes major projects like:

    Kubernetes: Migrated its official website and extensive documentation to Hugo to dramatically reduce build times and improve multilingual support.

    1Password: Switched its documentation to Hugo for enhanced security and a more efficient publishing process, citing its preference for static sites for critical content.

    Smashing Magazine: A leading resource for web professionals, Smashing Magazine famously moved its entire site to a Jamstack solution powered by Hugo to boost performance and improve its publishing workflow.

    Cloudflare: Adopted Hugo for its developer documentation, signaling a shift from other popular static site generators to embrace Hugo's unparalleled build speed.

    Hugo's remarkable performance and flexibility have made it the go-to choice for building a wide array of content-driven sites, from corporate and government platforms to technical documentation and high-traffic blogs. Its success is a testament to the power of open-source collaboration and a relentless focus on solving fundamental developer challenges.

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  • MongoDB

    - Present

    MongoDB (from "humongous") is a scalable, high-performance, open source NoSQL database. Written in C++

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  • spf13-vim

    - Present

    spf13-vim is a distribution of vim plugins and resources for Vim, GVim and MacVim.

    It is a completely cross platform distribution that stays true to the feel of vim while providing modern features like a plugin management system, autocomplete, tags and tons more.

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  • English

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