Jamie Mccusker
Senior Manager - Knowledge Engineering Practice Lead at The Opinionated Ontologist
Burlington, Connecticut, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJamie Mccusker is a senior leader in knowledge engineering and Graph AI with 15 years of experience applying ontologies, FAIR data principles, and computational biology to drive research and enterprise solutions. Currently leading Genpact’s Knowledge Engineering practice and hosting the podcast The Opinionated Ontologist, she blends strategic vision, team leadership, and public-facing thought leadership to operationalize AI-ready, interoperable data. Her research-director background at RPI includes DARPA- and community-funded projects and open-source frameworks like Whyis, and she contributes to prominent tools such as RDFLib through SPARQL and RDF canonicalization work. Jamie is skilled at translating complex domain knowledge into scalable ontology governance, semantic search, and agentic AI integrations—often surfacing practical value from niche academic standards. She pairs a PhD in Computer Science with hands-on engineering experience across bioinformatics and cloud architectures, making her adept at both high-level strategy and low-level implementation.
15 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Computer Science, Ph.D. Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteBA Computer Science Cognitive Science, BA Computer Science Cognitive Science at University of RochesterHigh School, High School at Lewis S. Mills High School
Github Skills (15)
graph10
semantic-web10
rdf10
sparql10
python10
graphing10
rdflib10
linked-data10
testing10
python-turtle9
turtle-graphics9
rt9
parser8
parserator8
serializer8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
RDFLib/rdflib
May 2015 - Feb 2021
RDFLib is a Python library for working with RDF, a simple yet powerful language for representing information.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:9 commits, 7 PRs, 54 comments in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Jamie primarily contributed to the rdflib library by implementing new features and fixing existing issues, focusing on the SPARQL store and canonicalization aspects. Their work includes adding an autocommit flag and modifying the query behavior within the SPARQL store. Furthermore, the user added tests for new functionalities related to graph canonicalization and fixed related issues. They also addressed a bug regarding BNode collapsing, demonstrating skills in RDF data manipulation and testing.
pythonpypisemantic-webrdf-xmlparser
jimmccusker/rdflib
May 2015 - Feb 2021
RDFLib is a Python library for working with RDF, a simple yet powerful language for representing information.
Contributions:14 pushes, 8 branches in 5 years 9 months
python-librarypythonlinked-datasimple-yet-powerfulsparql
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