Gordon Shotwell
Principal Analytics Engineer at CertifID
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Top SchoolGordon Shotwell is a Principal Analytics Engineer with 11 years of experience building data platforms, ML infrastructure, and analytics tooling across fintech and product companies from Halifax. He blends a rare legal background with deep technical chops—leading petabyte-scale migrations, designing governed compute environments, and creating feature and model management systems that kept fraud scoring safe at scale. Gordon has a track record of making analytics accessible: he built dbt-based semantic layers, an agentic dbt chatbot to self-serve SQL, and Shiny for Python integrations that lower the barrier for data scientists and non-technical users alike. He’s as comfortable architecting secure, compliant platforms for sensitive data as he is prototyping LLM-based classifiers and evaluation suites to measure model quality. Colleagues rely on him to reduce technical debt in data science and to translate governance and organizational behavior into practical, production-ready tools.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Law - JD, Law, Doctor of Law - JD, Law at Dalhousie University - Schulich School of LawBachelor of Arts, Philosophy, Economics, Bachelor of Arts, Philosophy, Economics at McGill University
English, French
Github Skills (194)
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Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
posit-dev/py-shiny-templates
Dec 2023 - Oct 2024
Contributions:1 review, 18 PRs, 57 pushes in 10 months
posit-dev/py-shiny-workshop
Jun 2023 - Jun 2024
Contributions:5 reviews, 24 PRs, 66 pushes in 11 months
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