Jeffrey Horner
Senior Data Engineer
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolJeffrey Horner is a Senior Data Engineer with 20 years of experience building data-driven software and infrastructure that deliver measurable value to users worldwide. Based in Nashville, he blends deep R ecosystem expertise—authoring packages, Shiny apps, and a time-series package—with practical backend and Linux server skills from roles at Vanderbilt and Raptive. He contributed notable back-end work to the widely used RStudio IDE, adding spell-checking via Hunspell integration, showing an ability to solve niche tooling gaps that improve developer productivity. As a co-owner of a cosmetics startup he pairs technical rigor with entrepreneurial instincts and product-focused communication for both users and executives. Comfortable across databases, ETL, and exploratory analysis, he has a track record of shipping reliable systems and filling unnoticed but important holes in community software.
21 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at University of Tennessee-Knoxville
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c-language10
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spellchecking10
r10
ide9
develop9
text-manipulation9
boost8
windows6
oop6
awk6
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rstudio6
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Github contributions (5)
rstudio/rstudio
Jan 2012 - Mar 2012
RStudio is an integrated development environment (IDE) for R
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Jeffrey primarily contributed to the implementation of a spell-checking feature within the RStudio IDE. They added methods for checking spelling, generating suggestion lists, analyzing words, and stemming words. The user also integrated the Hunspell library for spell-checking functionality, including encoding handling and dictionary management features. This involved modifying existing code and adding new files related to spell-checking.
iderrstudio
rstats/brew
May 2007 - Mar 2011
Contributions:22 commits in 3 years 11 months
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