Cal Herries is a software engineer with seven years' experience applying data science and engineering to hard problems in transportation and logistics. He has shipped backend features and bug fixes for the popular open-source analytics platform Metabase and worked with Clojure, TypeScript, Python, and SQL across startups and scale-ups. His background spans pricing and forecasting roles at freight platforms (Uber Freight, sennder) and hands-on engineering at Metabase and Newsroom AI, giving him a rare blend of production ML/pricing intuition and backend systems craftsmanship. Based in Tallinn and available for hire globally, he runs his own consulting practice and maintains a public portfolio at calherries.com. A pragmatic problem-solver, he’s comfortable moving from low-level optimizations (C/Python early work) to shaping product-facing analytics and email/BI infrastructure.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Engineering Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Engineering Science at University of Auckland
The simplest, fastest way to get business intelligence and analytics to everyone in your company :yum:
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:2735 reviews, 397 commits, 1001 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Cal primarily contributed to the back-end aspects of the Metabase project. They were involved in implementing new email settings for emails, including features such as reply-to and from-name settings. They also worked on fixing bugs related to query parameters for native questions. The code changes suggest a focus on improving the system's core functionality.
Contributions:18 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
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