Nick Burns
Senior Data Scientist
Nelson, Nelson, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Burns is a Senior Data Scientist with 11 years of experience applying machine learning to healthcare, environmental monitoring, and industry challenges from his base in Nelson, New Zealand. He has led ML efforts as a founder and consultant, and most recently built self- and weakly-supervised computer vision models for aerial imagery to identify forest species and canopy cover. At CarbonCrop and now Vital.io he combines practical deployment experience with research-led approaches, especially in self-supervised vision and NLP-backed search solutions. His background spans SQL Server performance and productionisation through to prototyping advanced ML systems, enabling him to bridge data engineering, model development and client-facing product delivery. An avid squash player and coffee enthusiast, he brings both curiosity and real-world pragmatism to solving messy, high-impact data problems.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Data Science (with Distinction), Master of Business Data Science (with Distinction) at University of OtagoMIT Online Professional DevelopmentGraduate Diploma in IT, Information Systems, Graduate Diploma in IT, Information Systems at Nelson Marlborough Institute of TechnologyMicrosoft Data Science Program
Github Skills (14)
sampling3
regression2
exploratory2
anova2
gwas2
bayesian2
statistics2
analytical1
markdown1
bayesian-statistics1
genomics1
regression-models1
bioinformatics1
genomes1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
MerrimanLab/GenomeDB
Jul 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:62 pushes, 5 branches, 1 issue in 3 months
MerrimanLab/LDCalculator
Dec 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:30 commits, 29 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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