Chris Muir
Data Engineer - Principal Associate
Richmond, Virginia, United States
Summary
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SeniorChris Muir is a seasoned data engineer with a decade of experience building ETL pipelines, APIs, and data products, currently serving as Principal Associate at Capital One. He blends research-grade tooling from his MIT work—R package authorship, Rcpp, NLP, and web scraping—with production-scale data engineering in financial services. Comfortable leading small teams, he has a track record of translating messy, multilingual datasets (including Chinese text) into actionable analytics. His background in audiovisual operations and project management gives him practical strengths in stakeholder communication, logistics, and running complex events under pressure. Active on GitHub, he maintains public work that reflects both research and engineering sensibilities, signaling a developer who values reproducibility and tooling.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (170)
python10
bookdown10
sec10
r10
pandas10
api10
r-package10
rapidjson10
zillow10
lists10
selenium10
scraper10
open-source10
dataframes9
ropensci9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ChrisMuir/geolocChina
Jun 2018 - Sep 2018
Native Geolocation of Chinese Strings in R (no API required)
Contributions:43 commits, 33 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
apichinesestringsrstatsgeolocation
ChrisMuir/baidugeo
Sep 2018 - Sep 2020
R interface to Baidu Maps API geocoding services
Contributions:32 commits, 1 PR, 17 pushes in 2 years
apigeocodinggeocoding-servicesbaidumaps-api
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