Justin Ellis
Lead Engineer at Bionic Health
Odenton, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJustin Ellis is a Lead Engineer with 12 years of experience building AI-driven products at the intersection of DevOps, machine learning, and web development, now leading engineering at Bionic Health. He has a track record of shipping production ML systems and multi-cloud document-processing platforms, combining backend, infrastructure, and model deployment expertise (Kubernetes, Terraform, FastAPI, Airflow). Formerly a principal data scientist and astrophysicist, he led NANOGrav’s gravitational-wave detection efforts at Caltech/JPL and translated rigorous Bayesian inference skills into robust ML solutions for enterprise clients. Known for fostering curiosity and continuous learning, he blends hands-on coding with customer-facing integration work and a pragmatic focus on testing, CI/CD, and scalable architectures. An unusual strength is his ability to move techniques from cutting-edge research into reliable, audited production pipelines that solve real-world business and healthcare problems.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Bachelor’s Degree, Astronomy and Astrophysics at West Virginia UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics at University of Wisconsin-MilwaukeeCalifornia Institute of Technology
Github Skills (88)
python10
mcmc10
algolia10
sparse-matrix10
conda10
github-pages10
rewrite10
inference10
jekyll10
algolia-search10
jekyll-theme10
conda-forge9
scikit9
sketchup9
annotations9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jellis18/enterprise
Feb 2017 - Oct 2021
ENTERPRISE (Enhanced Numerical Toolbox Enabling a Robust PulsaR Inference SuitE) is a pulsar timing analysis code, aimed at noise analysis, gravitational-wave searches, and timing model analysis.
Contributions:3 releases, 6 PRs, 285 pushes in 4 years 8 months
inference
jellis18/PAL2
Jan 2014 - Nov 2017
Rewrite of PAL
Contributions:1 release, 349 commits, 2 PRs in 3 years 10 months
rewritepal
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