John Hurley
Senior Director Of Data Science
Gilroy, California, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Hurley is a Senior Director of Data Science and AI leader with a Ph.D. in Mathematics, a CQF in Quantitative Finance, and over three decades of engineering and product experience culminating in eight years focused on data science leadership. He leads full-stack ML teams at Walmart Global Tech, driving forecasting, optimization, generative AI, and pricing solutions that deliver measurable revenue uplift and cost savings, and he holds 10 US patents. His background spans cryptographic systems at Apple, fintech risk modeling and fraud detection, and founding a successful software company—showing rare fluency across research, security, and commercial productization. Known for turning mathematical insight into production-grade systems, he also brings off-duty curiosity as an equestrian, photographer, and birder who enjoys pattern hunting beyond code.
8 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
CQF Quantitative Finance, CQF Quantitative Finance at 7city Learning EMEAPh.D. Mathematics, Ph.D. Mathematics at Stony Brook University
English, Italian, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese
Github Skills (13)
wolfram-language7
finance5
planning5
ipython5
volatility5
emr4
jupyter4
python4
math4
quantitative-trading3
quantitative-finance2
automation2
distributed-systems1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jhurley13/automatingcbc
Nov 2020 - Jan 2021
Automating the Christmas Bird Count
Contributions:40 commits, 2 PRs, 16 pushes in 1 month
birdpythonautomationchristmas
jhurley13/DistributedBirding
May 2020 - Feb 2021
Tool for planning distributed birding events using eBird data
Contributions:20 commits, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 9 months
eventspythonemrebird-dataebird
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