Ian Hardy
Summary
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SeniorIan Hardy is a deployment strategist and data scientist with 11 years of experience turning data into scalable, impact-driven solutions across technology, finance, and education. At Palantir Technologies, he designs and operationalizes data-driven deployment strategies, while his prior work at Zest AI and Loviaco built credit underwriting models, explainability tooling, and ML-powered mortgage servicing. He also contributes on the backend side to open-source library systems, notably the VuFind project where he implemented a robust FOLIO driver and features for renewals, holds, and item-level suppression. An experienced educator, he has TA’d Assembly, Algorithms, AI, and Statistics at UCSC and holds a BA in Computer Science with a Statistics minor and an MS in CS from UCSC. Based in New York, Ian combines hands-on engineering, data governance, and deployment orchestration with a track record of delivering auditable, customer-facing results, such as automating explainability outputs to reduce manual analysis by 95%.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (6)
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Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
vufind-org/vufind
Oct 2019 - Oct 2022
A library resource discovery portal designed and developed for libraries by libraries
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 18 commits, 20 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Ian primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the VuFind library resource discovery portal. Their work included implementing and refining the FOLIO driver, focusing on retrieving and displaying user transactions, holds, and fines. Furthermore, the user added features for renewing loans and improved the integration with FOLIO, addressing issues related to bibliographic IDs and item-level suppression. The commits demonstrate a deep understanding of API integration and data handling within the context of a library resource management system.
portalresource-discoverydiscoveryresource-librarydiscovery-portal
openlibraryenvironment/ui-request
Aug 2020 - Feb 2025
Request resources for ILL
Contributions:3 releases, 2 PRs, 14 pushes in 4 years 6 months
illrequest
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