Charlie Heller
Sr. Data Engineer
Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCharlie Heller is a Sr. Data Engineer with over eight years translating large, high-dimensional datasets into actionable insights, currently helping incite.ag turn emissions into income. Trained as a neuroscientist (PhD) and refined through postdoctoral work at the Max Planck Institute, he specializes in time-series analysis, dimensionality reduction, computer vision, and terabyte-scale pipeline engineering. He has a track record of cutting analysis runtimes and boosting reproducibility by building automated ML pipelines, Dockerized APIs, and lab-wide databases. Comfortable across research and production environments, Charlie leverages distributed and high-performance computing to make complex data accessible and usable. Based in Saint Paul, he pairs academic rigor with practical engineering—often surfacing reliable, open-source tools that speed discovery and deployment.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Neuroscience, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Neuroscience at Oregon Health and Science UniversityBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Physics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Physics at St. Olaf College
English, German
Github Skills (6)
modeling9
mathematical9
time-series8
dimensionality-reduction8
python8
plugin4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
crheller/TBP-ms
Apr 2022 - Jul 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 76 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 2 months
LBHB/nems_db
Apr 2018 - Sep 2022
LBHB lab-specific tools working with the NEMS modeling library
Contributions:677 commits, 43 PRs, 495 pushes in 4 years 6 months
modelinglabnems
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