David Jones
Research And Development Engineer at Penn State University
State College, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Jones is a Research and Development Engineer with 15 years of experience applying mathematical programming, algorithms, and digital signal processing to real-world software problems across academia, defense, and industry. He blends prototype-driven research (Matlab/Python) with production engineering in Python, C++, and F#, favoring functional styles where they improve correctness and maintainability. David has a track record of diagnosing performance issues at both algorithmic and implementation levels, and has also administered Linux clusters to support development and data analysis workflows. His background spans MIT Lincoln Laboratory and Raytheon through Google, Minitab, and recent roles at Penn State and Capital One, giving him both deep R&D chops and practical enterprise software experience. Trained in applied mathematics (M.S.) and mathematics (B.S.), he often builds bespoke tooling to accelerate research-to-product transitions.
15 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
UMass LowellBachelor's Degree Mathematics, Bachelor's Degree Mathematics at Penn State University
Github Skills (12)
versioning10
stable9
parsing9
date-parser9
version-control9
datetime9
python-datetime8
python7
git6
css1
javascript1
game-ai1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
dmj111/emacs.d
Aug 2014 - Apr 2018
Contributions:117 commits, 75 pushes in 3 years 8 months
dmj111/.dotfiles
Apr 2018 - Nov 2024
Contributions:144 pushes, 5 branches in 6 years 8 months
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