Joseph Burling
Data Quality Engineer
Houston, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoseph Burling is a Data Quality Engineer with 11 years of experience blending data engineering, project management, and cognitive neuroscience research to build reliable, reproducible data workflows for large-scale science and healthcare. He has led cross-functional teams to deploy automated pipelines, orchestration, and infrastructure (AWS, Prefect, Terraform, GitHub Actions) and now focuses on claims data quality at UTHealth Houston. Joseph’s background as a neuroscientist and instructor uniquely equips him to translate complex experimental designs into rigorous data management and statistical modeling practices, including custom Bayesian and Stan-based solutions. He has shipped production-ready tooling for pipeline automation, data retrieval, and documentation standards, and previously developed vision and eye-tracking analysis software in C++/OpenCV for behavioral research. Known for mentoring teams and improving data curation practices, he combines domain expertise in human attention with practical engineering to speed discovery while maintaining integrity. Based in Houston, he brings a research-first perspective to applied data quality challenges that often reveals hidden biases and temporal misalignments in multi-stream datasets.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Neuroscience, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Neuroscience at University of HoustonVisiting Scholar, Informatics, Visiting Scholar, Informatics at Kyoto University
Github Skills (82)
querying10
pipeline9
relational-algebra9
relational-databases9
python9
datajoint9
data-quality9
relational-model9
distributions9
java9
eda9
electrophysiology8
relational8
databases8
computational-neuroscience8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
iamamutt/datavyur
Oct 2020 - Nov 2021
Contributions:15 commits, 1 push in 1 year
iamamutt/pandoc-apa
Jun 2016 - Nov 2020
Contributions:32 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
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