Callista Christ
Data Engineer
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCallista Christ is a Data Engineer with 8 years of experience building production-ready data and ML pipelines across research and enterprise settings, currently at United Airlines after leadership roles in data analytics engineering. With a Physics and Astrophysics background from the University of Chicago, she combines rigorous quantitative modeling (MCMC, ResNet improvements on TPU) with practical engineering—designing reproducible Docker/Singularity pipelines, CI-driven testing, and scalable ETL for millions of tweets and image datasets. She has led teams of up to 10, shifting research groups toward software engineering best practices while delivering measurable accuracy gains and published research. Comfortable across cloud, NLP, computer vision, and SQL-backed data platforms, Callista brings a researcher's curiosity and an engineer's discipline to operationalizing complex data products.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Physics, Bachelor of Science - BS Physics at University of Chicago
Github Skills (13)
rcc10
python7
qbcore-framework7
solidworks7
crossword7
azerothcore7
dub6
user-guide6
mojo6
dm6
mod-manager5
orientdb4
android4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
callistac/Astronomy-Research-Project-2018
Dec 2018 - Jun 2019
Project goal was to determine what the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will observe in the Kepler field
Contributions:2 PRs, 56 pushes, 2 branches in 6 months
tesskeplerplanetgoalsatellite
callistac/GCP-Mini-App-Engine
Sep 2021 - Nov 2021
App Engine Project created to study for the Google Associate Cloud Engineer certification
Contributions:4 PRs, 32 pushes, 4 branches in 1 month
gcpappengineapp-enginegooglegoogle-cloud-platform
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