David Holt
Vice President Of Data
Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Holt is a data engineering leader and former Army Company Commander with 8+ years building forecasting and data-product platforms for logistics and energy markets. He combines hands-on expertise in time series forecasting, scalable ML pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Nix, Kubernetes) with a pragmatic focus on bottom-line effectiveness rather than vanity metrics. At FreightWaves and SONAR he architected modern data stacks (BigQuery, dbt, Airflow) and led teams that run millions of forecasting models daily while preserving auditability for index-backed financial products. He’s passionate about making domain experts productive with statistical and ML forecasts, mentoring engineers, and driving process improvements through Lean Six Sigma rigor. Outside work he still travels widely and brings the discipline and people-first leadership of his military career to building teams that learn and standardize together.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Business Analytics, Master of Science Business Analytics at Haslam College of Business at the University of Tennessee
Github Skills (75)
r9
dplyr9
tidymodels9
grammar9
tibble9
tidy8
parser8
fable8
data-transformation8
tidyverse8
jekyll8
temporal8
bootstrapping8
data-manipulation7
r-package7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
davidtedfordholt/fable.bsts
Dec 2019 - Sep 2020
Implementation of the bsts package for use with the fable framework
Contributions:168 commits, 5 PRs, 74 pushes in 8 months
fable
davidtedfordholt/tdfd.org
Feb 2020 - Dec 2022
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
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