Casey Bates
Founder CTO at Thinkfox.ai
Boulder, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolCasey Bates is a founder and CTO based in Boulder with eight years focused on applying AI to help small businesses and educators turn complex problems into practical products. He founded Thinkfox.ai to deliver AI productivity consulting, RAG-enabled prototypes, and curriculum-driven training, combining hands-on model work with instructional design. Previously he led technical content and AI strategy at Dataquest, where he shaped course development processes and quality assurance for interactive data science education. With roots in environmental science and a long history of technical training and consulting, he blends domain empathy with reproducible data-science practice (notably contributing ML solution notebooks on GitHub). Comfortable bridging strategy and implementation, he focuses on building value-driven AI that respects client needs and operational constraints.
7 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate Studies, Environmental Science, Graduate Studies, Environmental Science at University of WashingtonCertificate, Sustainable Business, Certificate, Sustainable Business at Pinchot UniversityHarvardX - Data Science Professional Certificate Program, HarvardX - Data Science Professional Certificate Program at edXData Science with R, Data Science with R at DataCampLiberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies, 4.0, Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies, 4.0 at Colorado Mountain CollegeData Scientist in Python, Data Scientist in Python at Dataquest.ioBA, Honors in Geography, BA, Honors in Geography at University of Colorado Boulder
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Github Skills (7)
machine-learning10
jupyter-notebook10
k-nearest-neighbours10
python10
data-analysis10
scikit-learn9
scikit9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
dataquestio/solutions
Aug 2019 - Oct 2022
Solutions for projects.
Role in this project:
Data Scientist
Data ScientistContributions:13 reviews, 58 commits, 50 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Casey added and updated solution files for a course on Introduction to Supervised Machine Learning in Python and for a project on predicting heart disease. They modified several notebooks, including Mission201Solution.ipynb, which suggests work related to data analysis and model building. The user re-ran the solutions with Python 3.8.
Contributions:17 pushes in 3 months
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