Jonathan Nafziger
Software Engineer at Packback
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolJonathan Nafziger is a software engineer and former theoretical physics postdoc with 10 years of experience bridging rigorous research and production engineering. He combines a PhD in Physics from Purdue with hands-on roles in machine learning data engineering and web development, currently building software at Packback after five years shaping ML data pipelines at Gridspace. Proficient in Python, Matlab, mathematical modeling, and applied ML, he moves comfortably between research-grade simulation and practical, scalable systems. Based in Los Angeles, he brings academic rigor to product-focused engineering and a curiosity for AI that drives him to translate complex models into usable tooling. An understated strength is his track record of turning abstruse theoretical work into clean, maintainable code and data workflows.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Physics, Bachelor's degree, Physics at Goshen CollegeDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics, GPA: 3.92, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics, GPA: 3.92 at Purdue University
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (27)
speech-processing10
speech10
natural-language-processing9
sudoku8
index-html7
goose7
sdk7
nlp6
scikit-learn6
pdf6
curve-fitting6
pca6
python6
matlab6
word2vec6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jnafzig/resume
Dec 2017 - Nov 2022
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years
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jnafzig/LoisStory
Jun 2019 - May 2022
Contributions:2 PRs, 47 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 10 months
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