Alex Hallam
Principal Data Scientist
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Hallam is a Principal Data Scientist with 11 years of applied analytics experience, currently leading enterprise-scale forecasting and predictive analytics at Chick-fil-A in Atlanta. He blends deep time-series expertise (ARIMA, ETS, Prophet, DeepAR) with pragmatic engineering—Python/R, SQL, Databricks, Docker, and cloud—to productionize automated forecasts and assessment pipelines. Prior roles at Inspire Brands honed restaurant demand forecasting at scale, and his biostatistics training gives him a strong statistical foundation for rigorous model evaluation. An active contributor to open-source tooling, he built a cross-platform CLI CSV pretty-printer and added forecast scoring utilities to the tidymodels ecosystem, reflecting a habit of improving developer ergonomics. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex temporal patterns into actionable operational decisions while keeping an eye on computational efficiency.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Biostatistics, Master of Science (M.S.), Biostatistics at Oregon Health and Science UniversityBrigham Young University-IdahoHigh School, General, High School, General at Chaparral High School
Github Skills (9)
data-formats10
formatting10
command-line-tool10
csv10
rust10
data-format10
tabular9
datatable9
datatables9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
alexhallam/tv
Apr 2021 - Oct 2022
📺(tv) Tidy Viewer is a cross-platform CLI csv pretty printer that uses column styling to maximize viewer enjoyment.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 releases, 17 reviews, 234 commits in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the development of the `tv` command-line tool. Their work involved implementing features related to CSV pretty printing, including concepts for the display of the data and the overall visual structure of the output. They refactored code and implemented functionalities that support the display of tabular data, including the inference of data types, data formatting (truncation and alignment), and the utilization of colors based on the configuration.
csvtibblepretty-printtuicli
alexhallam/fwdt
Aug 2022 - Oct 2022
🔥 📝 (fwdt) "few word do trick" is a cross platform manual fast logger
Contributions:2 releases, 1 review, 47 commits in 2 months
csvwindowsloggerloggingtrick
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