John Mount
Principal Consultant at Win-Vector LLC
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Mount is a Principal Consultant and algorithm specialist with 14+ years of experience applying state-of-the-art optimization, statistics, and machine learning to internet, finance, and biotech problems. He founded and leads Win-Vector LLC, where he blends rigorous theoretical computer science with hands-on implementation in languages from C++ and Java to R and Python. His background includes building high-performance search and trading systems, architecting auction engines, and inventing scalable chemical search tools—work that spans research, productization, and patentable innovation. Co-author of Practical Data Science with R, he combines academic depth (PhD from Carnegie Mellon) with a practical knack for turning complex probabilistic methods into fast, production-ready code. Not obvious from job titles: he’s repeatedly shipped systems that pushed performance records in their domains (e.g., billion-scale compound search and low-latency trading platforms).
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. Mathematics, B.A. Mathematics at University of California, BerkeleyPhd Computer Science, Phd Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
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Github Skills (155)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
WinVector/data_algebra
Aug 2019 - Jan 2023
Codd method-chained SQL generator and Pandas data processing in Python.
Contributions:82 releases, 2128 commits, 1993 pushes in 3 years 5 months
data-analysispythondata-sciencedata-processingdataframe
WinVector/JXREF
Dec 2015 - Jun 2020
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
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