Nicholas Tallant
Senior Software Engineer, AI at Turquoise
Greater Chicago Area United States
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Top SchoolNicholas Tallant is a Senior Software Engineer specializing in AI with eight years of experience building cloud-native, data-driven systems for nonprofits, government, and defense. He has led technical teams and shipped real-time machine learning pipelines for high-throughput media ingestion, propaganda analysis, and criminal-justice infrastructure, blending engineering, data science, and policy insights. Nicholas pairs econometric and spatial analysis training from the University of Chicago with hands-on production skills in Python, Kubernetes, AWS, and TensorFlow to turn social problems into measurable interventions. He’s briefed senior military leadership, written technical grant language for government clients, and mentored engineers and data scientists across organizations. Based in Greater Chicago, he brings a rare mix of applied ML at scale and policy-oriented quantitative rigor, with past work ranging from iOS ML apps to hierarchical modeling of education outcomes.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science in Computational Analysis & Public Policy, Master of Science in Computational Analysis & Public Policy at Harris School of Public Policy at the University of ChicagoBachelor of Science with Honors, Liberal Studies in Music and Science, Bachelor of Science with Honors, Liberal Studies in Music and Science at East Texas A&M University
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Github Skills (24)
python10
data-science10
pandas10
data-structure10
data-analysis10
jupyter9
javascript9
notebook9
ipython9
data-structures9
usergroup8
bayesian7
nlp6
bayesian-inference6
mcmc6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ndtallant/ndtallant.github.io
Aug 2018 - Oct 2023
Personal Website
Contributions:2 PRs, 52 pushes, 10 branches in 5 years 2 months
react
ndtallant/dotfiles
Nov 2017 - Mar 2026
Configuration files and setup scripts.
Contributions:4 PRs, 90 pushes, 6 branches in 8 years 5 months
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