Ken Williams
Principal Data Scientist
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolKen Williams is a Principal Data Scientist based in Minneapolis with 26 years of experience applying mathematics, machine learning, and software engineering to energy and utility problems. He has led production analytics at NextEra Analytics and previously drove applied-math initiatives at WindLogics, pioneering graph and document-store solutions, early Hadoop/Spark pipelines, and tighter R–Java integrations for operational systems. His background spans research-grade work at Thomson Reuters (text mining, sequence alignment, IR) to founding and shipping production web services and tooling (CampStaff, CPAN contributions, an O'Reilly co-authored book). Comfortable bridging research and engineering, he focuses on turning statistical models into maintainable, audited software for large-scale operational settings. An earlier career in education and music underpins his collaborative leadership—he serves on the tech leadership team for a choral nonprofit—and reflects a rare combination of technical rigor and human-centered teamwork.
26 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Mathematics and Music, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Mathematics and Music at Swarthmore CollegeThe University of SydneySt. Paul Academy and Summit School
English, German
Stackoverflow
23,397reputation
3.9mreached
139answers
177questions
r
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if-statement
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amazon-s3
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vectorization
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statistics
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subset
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Github Skills (200)
cml10
data-manipulation10
specification10
command-line-tool10
ecosystem10
htmlwidgets10
neo4j10
data-storage10
julia10
data-science10
directed-acyclic-graph10
docstrings10
neo4j-database10
package-manager10
streaming-data10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
kenahoo/julia
Nov 2016 - Aug 2024
The Julia Language: A fresh approach to technical computing.
Contributions:2 pushes in 7 years 10 months
julia-languageapproachtechnical-computingcomputingjulia
kenahoo/sia-drupal
Mar 2016 - Sep 2023
Singers In Accord Drupal-based site
Contributions:1 PR, 140 pushes, 9 branches in 7 years 6 months
phpdrupalaccord
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