John Holt
Gardener And Data Miner
Miamisburg, Ohio, United States
Summary
👤
SeniorJohn Holt is a data mining specialist with 13 years of experience focusing on information retrieval, full-text search, and uncovering non-obvious relationships in text and semi-structured data. Based in Miamisburg, Ohio, he blends research-minded algorithm development with practical system considerations, currently investigating how data structure choices affect latency and cost. His unusual dual role as a gardener and data miner highlights a deliberate balance between patient, experimental thinking outdoors and iterative, analytical problem-solving in code. Over the past several years he has continued refining data mining algorithms while exploring production trade-offs that matter for scalable search systems. Though not a prolific public open-source contributor, his deep domain expertise suggests strong potential for impactful behind-the-scenes engineering in search and knowledge discovery projects.
13 years of coding experience
Github Skills (17)
hpcc10
parallel-processing10
ecl9
big-data8
webservice8
support-vector-machine7
logistic-regression6
classification6
java5
machine-learning5
spark4
blas4
aws4
vscode3
linear-regression2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
hpcc-systems/LearningTrees
May 2017 - Aug 2018
Classification and Regression Learning Tree implementation bundle repository
Contributions:5 PRs, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
classification
johnholt/HPCC-Platform
Jun 2015 - Jul 2018
Contributions:3 PRs, 28 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 1 month
hpccdatahpcc-systemscommunity-editionbig-data
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.