Brett Calcott
Senior Data Scientist
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolBrett Calcott is a Senior Data Scientist in Auckland with 21 years of professional experience and a PhD, blending deep academic research with extensive software engineering practice. He designs and ships large-scale production systems—most recently an AWS Python/Spark entity-resolution pipeline—while earlier building full-text search for the French National Library and widely cited bioinformatics tools used to reconstruct insect evolution. His background spans industry (Xero, banks) and high-level research roles (Santa Fe Institute collaborations, ARC fellowships), giving him rare fluency across causation-focused research, agent-based modelling, and scalable data engineering. He has also taught cognitive science and biology, edited books on cooperation, and published on topics from causation measurement to software evolvability, reflecting a habit of turning interdisciplinary curiosity into practical software and scientific impact.
21 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Australian National UniversityB.A., Philosophy, B.A., Philosophy at University of CanterburyB.A. Honours, Philosophy / Computer Science, B.A. Honours, Philosophy / Computer Science at Victoria University of Wellington
English, French
Github Skills (85)
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pybind1110
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reduction10
executable10
partitioning10
reproducible-research10
pdf10
bioinformatics10
python-bindings10
dna-sequences10
reactive9
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python9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
brettc/causalinfo
Sep 2015 - Aug 2020
Contributions:5 releases, 98 commits, 6 PRs in 4 years 11 months
causalgraphsmeasures
brettc/epistemic-landscapes
Aug 2012 - Mar 2015
Contributions:88 commits, 3 pushes in 2 years 8 months
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