Jon Harmon - Principal Data Solutions Engineer

Jon Harmon

Principal Data Solutions Engineer

Austin, Texas, United States

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Jon Harmon is a Principal Data Solutions Engineer based in Austin with eight years focused on building robust R ecosystems, from authoring and maintaining 30+ R packages to delivering client-facing Shiny applications. He drives measurable impact—internal and open-source packages he created have cut data pipeline effort by over 80%—and he scales community learning as Executive Director of DSLC.io, growing membership from 1,600 to 14,000 and running 60+ book clubs. A hands-on open-source contributor (notably to the popular tidytuesday project via visualizations and animated analyses), he also secures infrastructure funding from the R Consortium and writes tools to simplify API interaction in R. Jon blends technical leadership, pedagogy, and product insight, having led data science teams at Macmillan to deploy NLP and statistical models that dramatically improved editorial and authoring workflows. He’s equally comfortable mentoring hundreds of volunteers and diving into package internals to refactor code and streamline pipelines.

8 years of coding experience

14 years of employment as a software developer

Bachelor of Science - BS Molecular Biology, Bachelor of Science - BS Molecular Biology at Michigan Technological University

research toward PhD Biochemistry, research toward PhD Biochemistry at The University of Texas at Austin

Spanish

Stackoverflow

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Github Skills (16)

data-wrangling10

data-visualizations10

data-visualization10

dplyr10

data-visualisation10

ggplot10

r10

tidyr9

data-analysis9

statistics8

rstudio-server6

shiny6

timezone6

timestamp6

mysql6

Programming languages (14)

JavaCSSC++CTeXRezHTMLJupyter Notebook

Github contributions (5)

rfordatascience/tidytuesday

Sep 2019 - Jan 2023

Official repo for the #tidytuesday project

Role in this project:

Data Scientist

Contributions:214 reviews, 41 commits, 316 PRs in 3 years 4 months

Contributions summary:Jon contributed visualizations and analyses for the TidyTuesday project, specifically focusing on the Moore's Law dataset. They implemented an animated bar chart to compare predicted and actual transistor counts over time, including the addition of GPU data. Code cleanup and minor refactoring were also done. The user demonstrated skills in data wrangling, data visualization, and animation using R and associated packages like ggplot2 and gganimate.

dplyrtidytuesdaytsnetidyverse

yonicd/slackcalls

Jan 2020 - May 2022

generic package to call slack api from R

Contributions:3 commits, 14 PRs, 12 pushes in 2 years 4 months

slackapislack-apigenericr

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