Art Covert
Principal Consultant at Slalom
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolArt Covert is a Principal Consultant with 19 years of experience building large-scale data and ML systems, currently leading data engineering and MLOps engagements at Slalom from Austin. He combines deep technical expertise in Spark, Kafka, EMR/Hadoop and S3 with hands-on solutions architecture—recently migrating 40 active pipelines processing 20 PB and launching a privacy-centric product supporting PySpark/PyTorch at scale. A seasoned people leader and sales enabler, he coaches engineering teams, embeds with client-side staff, and helps win complex engagements. His background in computational evolutionary research and open-source contributions to the Avida platform reveal a rare blend of scientific rigor and production-grade systems design.
19 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science and Evolution, Ecology and Behaviorial Biology, PhD, Computer Science and Evolution, Ecology and Behaviorial Biology at Michigan State University
Github Skills (12)
algorithm10
data-structures10
aida10
algorithms10
avi10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
ida10
data-structure10
assembly8
assembler8
assemble8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
devosoft/avida
Jul 2006 - Jan 2010
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Art significantly enhanced the Avida evolutionary computation platform by introducing new divide instructions and features related to mutation handling. Their work includes implementing a resampling divide instruction (`h-divdeRS`), specifying bounds for neutral mutations, and adding commands for controlling mutation rates and genome injection. The changes involve modifications to core CPU components, mutation logic, and population management, indicating a focus on the core computational mechanics of the Avida system. The user's contributions directly impact the evolutionary processes and experimental capabilities of the platform.
avida
covertspartan/PyAvida
Oct 2014 - Feb 2015
Contributions:45 commits, 26 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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