H Sheets
Director, Masters Program In Data Science
North Andover, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolH Sheets is a data science leader with 15 years of experience bridging academia and production engineering, currently directing Merrimack College’s Masters Program in Data Science while serving as Research Professor at SUNY Buffalo. Trained as a physicist (PhD, University at Buffalo), he blends deep quantitative expertise in stochastic modeling, geometric morphometrics and paleobiology with practical backend and DevOps chops demonstrated by contributions to notable open-source projects like AdGuard Home, LinuxKit and OCaml tooling. He has built and led graduate analytics programs, guided curriculum for professional MS degrees, and mentors students pursuing industry internships. Unusually for an academic director, he remains a hands-on systems contributor—refactoring CLI/service integrations, enhancing HTTP and package-manager internals, and authoring C-level FUSE proxies—bringing production-grade robustness to data science education.
15 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Physics, PhD, Physics at University at BuffaloBachelor's degree, Physics, Bachelor's degree, Physics at State University of New York at Fredonia
Github Skills (51)
website-development10
scripting10
service-management10
command-line-interface10
http10
c1110
ocaml10
c1710
package-manager-tool10
http-client10
script10
go10
dns10
command-line10
html10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
mirage/ocaml-cohttp
Aug 2010 - Jul 2015
An OCaml library for HTTP clients and servers using Lwt or Async
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:92 commits, 21 PRs, 3 pushes in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:H primarily contributed to the development of the OCaml Cohttp library, focusing on HTTP client and server functionalities. Their work included resolving merge conflicts, adding support for HTTP status codes (e.g., 422 Unprocessable Entity), and implementing features such as setting the User-Agent header and extraction of Set-Cookie headers. Additionally, the user addressed bugs related to directory traversal and incorporated enhancements to the server-side component of the library.
unixhttp-headerlwtdubponylang
ocaml/v2.ocaml.org
Aug 2012 - Sep 2016
Implementation of the ocaml.org website.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:53 commits, 9 PRs, 8 pushes in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:H primarily contributed to the ocaml.org website implementation. Their work involved adding and updating content, specifically related to company listings and package information. They also improved the website's code quality by making changes such as replacing absolute paths with relative paths and preparing for HTTPS implementation. Additionally, the user made modifications to the template and script files to enhance the website's overall structure and functionality.
lwtocamlduneopam
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