Casey Hilland
Director, Applied Science at Vantor
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCasey Hilland is a Director of Applied Science with 11 years of experience building and operationalizing large-scale ML and analytics systems, now leading AI/ML efforts at Vantor. He combines hands-on software engineering in Python, Go, and R with distributed computing expertise to design production machine learning pipelines and object-detection analytics. Casey’s background in counterterrorism and counterinsurgency research gives him a distinctive ability to translate messy human-system problems into rigorous, data-driven solutions. He has repeatedly moved from hands-on data science roles into engineering leadership—shaping teams and platforms at Qntfy, Parenthetic, and Vantor—so he balances technical depth with product and organizational delivery. Based in Washington, DC, he brings both academic rigor from Penn State and practical experience shipping complex systems in mission-focused domains.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Science at University of OregonMaster's degree, Master's degree at Penn State University
English
Github Skills (82)
json-data10
gcp10
k8s10
jsonpath10
helm10
linode10
kubernetes10
kops10
go10
aws10
dockerfile9
geospatial9
gis9
json9
gensim9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
chilland/corenlp-docker
Jan 2016 - Dec 2020
Dockerfile for Stanford CoreNLP Server
Contributions:1 release, 9 commits, 4 PRs in 5 years
dockerfilestanfordcorenlpdockerstanford-corenlp
chilland/kazaam
Feb 2017 - Nov 2019
Arbitrary transformations of JSON in Golang
Contributions:42 pushes, 10 branches in 2 years 10 months
golangarbitrarytransformationsjson
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