Dean Allemang
Senior Staff Applied Research Scientist at Working Ontologist, LLC
Columbus, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolDean Allemang is a Senior Staff Applied Research Scientist with over 30 years of experience designing and deploying semantic solutions, from expert and rule-based systems to modern Semantic Web architectures. He blends deep academic training (MSc in Pure Mathematics, PhD in AI) with hands-on roles as principal solutions architect, ontologist, and founder of Working Ontologist, LLC. Known for formalizing how communities represent knowledge, he has driven adoption of RDF/S, OWL, SKOS and SPARQL across finance and life sciences and helped shape industry standards at organizations like the EDM Council. Dean joined data.world to scale global data sharing and now applies his expertise at ServiceNow, continuing a rare mix of research rigor and practical deployment. He writes regularly about knowledge engineering (a multi-week blogging streak on Medium) and shares practical examples via GitHub gists, highlighting a focus on reproducible, community-oriented tooling. An intriguing throughline in his career is the persistent focus on making tacit community knowledge explicit and actionable at enterprise scale.
10 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Pure Maths, Master of Science - MS Pure Maths at University of CambridgePhD Artificial Intelligence, PhD Artificial Intelligence at The Ohio State University
German, French, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
file-browser10
shodan10
to-do10
ubuntu10
hyper10
visual-studio10
install-script10
compression10
spotify10
unix10
torrent10
github-desktop10
browser10
duplicati10
firefox10
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
hl2guide/All-in-One-Customized-Adblock-List
Nov 2019 - Apr 2021
An all-in-one adblock list that thoroughly blocks trackers, popup ads, ads, unwanted cookies, fake news, cookie warning messages, unwanted comment sections, crypto-coin mining, YouTube clutter, Twitter guff and social network hassles.
Contributions:271 commits, 6768 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
youtubecookienewsclutteradblock-list
hl2guide/FFmpeg-HEVC-Video-Converter
Oct 2019 - Apr 2021
Contributions:21 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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