J Mcgoffin
Senior Applied Researcher at GitHub
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolJ Mcgoffin is a Senior Applied Researcher in San Francisco with six years of experience applying data, statistics, and machine learning to improve AI agents and build scalable evaluation systems. He blends hands-on software engineering with research rigor, having progressed from growth engineering and tutoring through senior engineering and management roles at Atlassian, CircleCI, and GitHub. Comfortable with experimentation frameworks, Bayesian and frequentist analysis, and feature flagging in production, he translates complex metrics into actionable product decisions. His background in physics and mathematics underpins a quantitative approach to model evaluation and system design, while earlier work in game design and photovoltaics reveals a habit of tackling diverse technical domains.
6 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Physics at Colorado State University
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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817reached
1answer
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Github Skills (45)
git10
github10
github-api-v410
go10
command-line10
golang10
command-line-tool10
cli10
api9
circleci8
props7
continuous-integration7
gh-extension6
jestjs6
dom6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jtmcg/game-design-course-code
Oct 2019 - Jul 2021
The various Jupyter Notebooks and Python Games for my Game Design course
Contributions:2 PRs, 34 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 9 months
game-designpythongamesjupyter-notebookpygame
jtmcg/parallelism-test-repo
Aug 2021 - Mar 2022
Contributions:4 PRs, 47 pushes, 5 branches in 6 months
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