Summary
John Burt is a Senior Data Analyst based in Portland with nine years of data-focused experience, currently turning messy, large-scale PostgreSQL and MongoDB datasets into actionable insights at Kin + Carta. He combines a rare academic depth—a PhD in Psychology/Animal Behavior—with hands-on engineering skills in Python, SQL, and Golang to build ETL pipelines, ML models, and production dashboards. John has shipped analytics and backend tooling across startups and consulting gigs, and organizes the Portland Data Science Group to foster community learning through multi-week applied projects. Comfortable shifting between research-grade modeling and pragmatic software engineering, he’s equally at home tuning a model or authoring Golang ETL for web products.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Psychology / Animal Behavior, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Psychology / Animal Behavior at University of Washington