Mark Hall
Data Scientist
Rotorua, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand
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Top SchoolMark Hall is an experienced data scientist and one of the original core developers of the Weka machine learning workbench, combining 15 years of academic research with a decade of industry practice. He has led machine learning efforts at Pentaho and served as chief machine learning architect at Hitachi Vantara Labs before joining Pyramid Analytics, bringing deep expertise in productionizing research-grade algorithms. Based in Rotorua, New Zealand, he holds a PhD in Machine Learning from the University of Waikato and remains an honorary research associate there, bridging academia and enterprise. Beyond technical leadership, he’s known for translating complex ML research into practical tooling and products—a skill reflected in his long-term stewardship of a widely used open-source project. Off hours he balances a busy family life with windsurfing and guitar, a hint at a hands-on, curious approach to both work and play.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Western HeightsPhD, Machine Learning, Data Mining, PhD, Machine Learning, Data Mining at The University of WaikatoMarina Village Junior High
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Github Skills (39)
pdi10
plugin10
weka10
cassandra9
operation9
feature-store9
hbase9
hosts9
metadata9
marketplace9
singer9
database9
mongodb9
streaming8
hive8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
m-a-hall/incubator-hop
Nov 2020 - Apr 2021
Hop Orchestration Platform
Contributions:42 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
hopkubernetesorchestration
m-a-hall/hop-cpython
Nov 2020 - Nov 2022
Contributions:20 commits, 5 PRs, 22 pushes in 2 years
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