John Burkhart
Vice President Quantitative Analysis
Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Burkhart is a vice president-level quantitative leader with 13 years of experience building analytics, modeling, and data-driven decision systems for energy markets and geophysical science. He currently leads technology strategy and organizational transformation at Statkraft while maintaining a faculty role advancing operational forecasting and open-source modeling at the University of Oslo. His background blends hands-on data engineering and high-performance scientific computing from roles at Citadel and Statkraft with field-hardened climate and hydrology research, including Arctic expeditions for NASA. John is skilled at turning complex geophysical uncertainty into deployable trading and origination analytics, having built teams and toolchains that bridge IT security, big data, and compute-intensive modeling. He brings uncommon domain depth—PhD-level hydrology and decades of environmental fieldwork—paired with practical experience shipping risk-aware quantitative platforms. Based in Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA, he combines academic rigor with industry delivery to solve energy-market challenges driven by natural variability.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
The University of ArizonaBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Earth Systems Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Earth Systems Science at Iowa State UniversityAssociate of Arts and Sciences - AAS, Associate of Arts and Sciences - AAS at Bard College at Simon's RockSchool of Life
English, Italian, Norwegian
Github Skills (36)
visualization10
jupyter9
bokeh9
javascript9
pandas9
data-model9
python9
data-visualisation9
dask9
google-cloud9
netcdf9
opendap8
google-cloud-run8
gcp8
toolbox7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
spectraphilic/reflexible
Jul 2012 - Jun 2018
Package for plotting and analysis of geophysical model data
Contributions:151 commits, 7 PRs, 75 pushes in 5 years 11 months
plottingpythondata-modelvisualization
jfburkhart/geo4310
Aug 2015 - Sep 2017
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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