Dallan Quass
Founder at Pioneer Artificial Intelligence Academy
Lindon, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolDallan Quass is a founder and machine learning engineer with a PhD from Stanford and over two decades of experience building search and information-extraction systems for the web. He has repeatedly commercialized research into products—co-founding Junglee, WhizBang! Labs, FlipDog, and RootsFinder, each acquired by major buyers including Amazon and Monster—and served as CTO of FamilySearch. He combines hands-on ML and backend expertise (Python, PyTorch, Scikit-learn, Go, Java, ElasticSearch/Solr, AWS, Docker) with a track record of shipping production-grade search and genealogy platforms that extract names, dates, and places from unstructured sources. Currently he consults through genefun and runs the Foundation for On-Line Genealogy and Pioneer Artificial Intelligence Academy, mentoring the next generation of engineers while taking on contract work in NLP and search. Notably, his academic work has been widely cited and his genealogy projects (WeRelate, GenGophers) have been recognized among the top resources in the field, reflecting a rare blend of scholarly impact and applied product success.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Brigham Young UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at Stanford University
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Github Skills (200)
echo10
identity10
websocket10
openid-provider10
crawler10
angularjs-material10
middleware10
hydra10
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
werelate/wikidata
Aug 2013 - Dec 2022
Various scripts to parse and update data on WeRelate.org
Contributions:45 commits, 12 PRs, 33 pushes in 9 years 5 months
aplpythonupdate-datathunderbirdupdate
werelate/wiki
Aug 2013 - Jan 2023
wiki code for WeRelate.org
Contributions:202 commits, 77 PRs, 173 pushes in 9 years 6 months
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