Miles Porter
Distinguished Engineer - Lead Data Scientist
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolMiles Porter is a Distinguished Engineer and Lead Data Scientist in Minneapolis with 11 years of focused experience building practical ML and analytics solutions across transportation, healthcare, retail, and logistics. He blends deep classical statistical foundations with modern neural methods—having applied CNNs, LSTMs and dense networks in research and production—while leading cross-functional teams at Trimble and previously as a senior consultant. A veteran software engineer since the 1990s, he pairs broad language and platform fluency (Java, C#, Python, Ruby, cloud providers) with hands-on architecture and mentoring to drive delivery and agility. Miles holds a Master’s in Data Analytics from Georgia Tech and has a track record of turning research prototypes into production services and scalable anomaly-detection systems. An understated strength is his history of shaping team practices—establishing Agile guilds, CI/TDD, and recruiting high-performing engineers—that keeps complex projects on course.
11 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Data Analytics, Master's degree, Data Analytics at Georgia Institute of TechnologyDiploma, Diploma at Arvada West High SchoolBA, Mathematics, Music, BA, Mathematics, Music at University of Northern Colorado
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Github Skills (17)
ubuntu9
machine-learning7
tensorflow7
ruby-on-rails6
multi-layer6
deep-learning6
gpu6
ruby6
statistics4
python3
data-science2
temperature2
monitoring1
artificial-intelligence1
mscoco1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
fractalbass/data_science
Jun 2017 - Jun 2026
A blog series focused around Data Science, Deep Learning, Neural Computing and More.
Contributions:2 PRs, 181 pushes, 3 branches in 9 years 1 month
pythondata-aroundsciencedata-sciencedeep-learning
fractalbass/simple_neural_net
Feb 2018 - Sep 2020
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 7 months
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