Chris Parker
Director, Data And AI
Houston, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolChris Parker is a Director of Data & AI with 17 years of experience designing industrial AI products and reusable accelerators, currently leading Data & AI at Neudesic, an IBM Company from Houston. He previously spent over a decade at McKinsey in senior technical and partner-level roles, translating complex analytics and engineering needs into production-grade systems. His hands-on background includes architecting a scalable Ruby on Rails procurement platform and a custom Java EDI engine for healthcare interoperability. Chris combines product-focused leadership with deep systems experience across databases, integration, and ML-enabled solutions, making him effective at bridging strategy and implementation. Notably, his career blends enterprise consulting rigor with practical engineering delivery—often turning regulated, domain-heavy requirements into deployable, auditable platforms.
17 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
CS, CS at University of Houston
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Github Skills (92)
ubl10
faunadb10
formulas10
jar10
data-wrangling10
tarantool10
x1210
wikidata10
crossword10
ruby-wrapper10
java10
reconciliation10
nifi-processor10
nimble10
edi9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mrcsparker/nifi-jruby-bundle
Sep 2016 - Jan 2018
Contributions:11 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
mrcsparker/ruby_tika_app
Nov 2011 - Oct 2020
A ruby wrapper for the Tika jar (tika-app.jar) that extracts text in a lot of formats from PDF, xls, doc, etc files
Contributions:3 releases, 24 commits, 11 PRs in 9 years
ruby-wrapperxlspdflotruby
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