Neal Mcburnett
Independent Consultant at self-employed
Boulder, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolNeal Mcburnett is an independent consultant and technologist with over 15 years of experience driving election integrity, security, and AI-enabled data science projects from Boulder, Colorado. He helped design and implement the nation’s first statewide Risk Limiting Audits in Colorado, contributed open-source audit tooling and standards work for EAC, NIST and IEEE P1622/EML, and continues to advise election officials and projects like VotingWorks and Democracy Works. A former Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Bell Labs, he introduced the World Wide Web into enterprise R&D there and later co-organized Internet2’s IDtrust symposium for a decade. Neal has taught AI at the University of Colorado, developed Apache Spark training with Databricks, and remains active in Ubuntu server and free-software communities. His career blends deep standards and protocol work with hands-on engineering and public-interest volunteering—he co-founded the Boulder Community Network and serves on boards advancing verifiable elections. An understated through-line is his focus on “technology serving community,” applying practical open-source and auditing rigor to civic systems.
15 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
Masters of Science, Computer Science, Masters of Science, Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleySc.B, Computer Science, Sc.B, Computer Science at Brown University
Esperanto
Stackoverflow
12,955reputation
3.9mreached
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dataframe
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opencv
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python
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apache-spark
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Github Skills (200)
network-graph10
spin10
command-line-interface10
chat10
ecosystem10
openssf10
data-science10
endpoint-security10
keybase10
audit10
assemble10
command-line10
notebook10
opencv10
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Programming languages (36)
Github contributions (5)
nealmcb/audit_cvrs
Aug 2014 - Jun 2021
audit_cvrs helps auditors manage a ballot-level risk-limiting post-election audit
Contributions:54 commits, 2 PRs, 18 pushes in 6 years 10 months
security-auditpythoncivic-techauditsecurity
nealmcb/arlo
Jan 2020 - Jun 2026
Contributions:15 pushes, 7 branches in 6 years 5 months
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