Jason Parham
Staff R&D Engineer at Kitware Inc.
Cornelius, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolJason Parham is a Staff R&D Engineer with 13 years of experience applying computer vision and machine learning to real-world problems, currently at Kitware after leading animal detection and re-identification research at Wild Me. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from RPI and combines rigorous research with hands-on engineering—prototyping models, deploying production systems used by over a thousand biologists, and contributing full‑stack fixes to open-source projects like Submitty. Jason has supported DoD and DARPA-funded efforts in satellite object detection and helped win multi-million dollar proposals, showing a knack for translating research into mission-critical systems. Based in Cornelius, OR, he pairs field-focused conservation work (Wildbook) with space- and defense-grade perception engineering, bringing cross-domain depth and pragmatic delivery to complex ML problems.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science / Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science / Mathematics at Pepperdine UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Github Skills (13)
javascript10
html9
momentjs9
autograd8
ed255198
css7
json6
clang6
gcc6
openmp6
python6
matplotlib6
geolocation6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Submitty/Submitty
Sep 2016 - Sep 2017
Homework Submission, Automated Grading, and TA grading system.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 12 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:Jason contributed to the development of the Submitty platform by implementing room templates, a feature related to seating arrangements. Their work involved migrating data using SCP and RSYNC for rainbow grades. They also addressed cross-platform compatibility issues, especially concerning date handling in Safari, integrating Moment.js. Additionally, they implemented template fixes for walkways.
reactsubmittygrading-systemhomework-serverteaching-tools
WildMeOrg/wbia-tpl-curvrank-v2
Jan 2021 - Oct 2022
Contributions:10 PRs, 45 pushes, 13 branches in 1 year 9 months
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