James Crotinger
Data Scientist
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Crotinger is a senior data scientist and hands-on engineering leader with over two decades of experience building high-performance software for finance, scientific computing, and IT operations. He has led global teams and shipped complex products—most recently driving anomaly detection, root-cause analysis, and event-correlation capabilities in ServiceNow’s ITOM and Operational Intelligence offerings. Prior to that he architected and managed Numerix’s CrossAsset derivative pricing platform and contributed parallel C++ frameworks at national labs, blending deep applied-math and Monte Carlo expertise with production-grade systems design. Known for translating advanced quantitative models into scalable, low-latency implementations, he brings rare cross-domain fluency from plasma physics research to exotic derivatives and distributed computation. Based in Salt Lake City, he describes himself as a retired manager who continues to code and mentor, favoring pragmatic, agile delivery of technically ambitious features.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Accounting and Basic Science, Accounting and Basic Science at Barton Community CollegePhD, Applied Plasma Physics, PhD, Applied Plasma Physics at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBS, Nuclear Engineering, BS, Nuclear Engineering at Kansas State University
Norwegian, English, Spanish
Github Skills (60)
jni-wrapper10
genetic-algorithm10
loess10
seasonal-adjustment10
time-series10
interpolation10
wavelet10
java10
regression-models10
prediction10
statistical-learning9
mathematica9
visualization9
algorithm9
dataframe9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jcrotinger/stl-decomp-4j
Apr 2019 - Jul 2025
Java implementation of Seasonal-Trend-Loess time-series decomposition algorithm.
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 4 months
decompositiondecomposition-algorithmseasonalseasonal-trend-loesstrend
jcrotinger/pyloess
Apr 2016 - Nov 2019
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
smootherdecompositionpythonsandboxseasonal
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