Justin Dowdy
Principal Software Engineer at Raft
Missouri, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJustin Dowdy is a Principal Software Engineer with a decade of experience building production systems and shaping data-driven solutions across healthcare, agriculture intelligence, and enterprise consulting. Currently at Raft after a role as Senior Applied Ontologist at Gro Intelligence, he blends software engineering with semantic modeling to turn complex domain knowledge into practical systems. His background spans startups and consulting engagements—Olive, Semantic Arts, Infoverity—where he focused on reliable, maintainable architectures and translating business needs into technical designs. A former USAF avionics journeyman, he brings disciplined systems thinking and attention to operational robustness that inform his engineering approach. Based in Missouri, he maintains an engineering blog and public GitHub presence that reflect a steady interest in applied ontology, architecture, and pragmatic open-source tooling.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Southern Illinois University, CarbondaleBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of Missouri-Saint Louis
Github Skills (200)
semantic-web10
spreadsheet10
presto10
json10
data-science10
pipe10
sql-database10
indexing10
jena10
python10
datasette10
owl10
triplestore10
pandas10
csv10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
justin2004/slimv_box
Nov 2018 - Dec 2021
slimv in a container
Contributions:73 commits, 2 PRs, 59 pushes in 3 years
containerscontainerdocker
justin2004/wikidata_reasoning
Mar 2021 - Apr 2021
Contributions:27 commits, 12 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
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