Hunter Provyn
Data Scientist Full Stack Engineer
Boulder City, Nevada, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHunter Provyn is a data scientist and full-stack engineer with eight years of experience building geospatial analytics and genetic-genealogy tools, currently driving YSEQ’s ML-backed haplogroup prediction and visualization products. He blends distributed computation expertise (Java/Scala, Hadoop, Spark) with applied machine learning—authoring Random Forest models for Y-DNA prediction and producing open-source tools (STR Match Finder, HRAS, Clade Finder) that support haplogroup research. His background includes systems engineering for defense and logistics analytics and early work in medical systems testing, giving him a strong foundation in scalable data pipelines and rigorous validation. Based in Boulder City, NV, he actively maintains research-oriented projects (PhyloGeographer) and is seeking an on-site engineering role in the US, Germany or elsewhere.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Systems and Information Engineering, BS, Systems and Information Engineering at University of Virginia
Github Skills (2)
genomics9
bioinformatics9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
hprovyn/str-to-haplogroup-predictor
Jun 2019 - May 2020
Contributions:81 commits, 184 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
hprovyn/clade-finder
Dec 2019 - Jun 2022
Determines Y-Haplogroup Clade From Positive and Negative SNPs
Contributions:226 commits, 231 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 6 months
bioinformaticscladegenomicssnps
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