Nick Cortale
Director Of Analytics at Live Oak Bank
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolNick Cortale is a Director of Analytics with 11 years of experience turning data into strategic value at Live Oak Bank, where he led a cross-enterprise migration to Databricks, transitioned 130+ data products, and built a real-time monitoring system that helped remove the bank from FDIC watchlist. He combines hands-on data engineering and data science chops—building automation that processed hundreds of PPP loans daily and scalable analytics platforms—with strong operational leadership, shrinking 110+ dashboards into 30 high-impact assets and identifying $5M+ in annual opportunities. Nick has a research background in physical oceanography and open-source scientific Python tooling (two peer-reviewed packages) that informs his rigorous approach to model validation and reproducible pipelines. Known for instituting CI/CD, code review, and Agile practices in analytics teams, he aligns technical transformations with C-suite strategy to deliver measurable business outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Physical Oceanography, Master of Science (M.S.), Physical Oceanography at University of North Carolina at WilmingtonRutgers University
Github Skills (69)
json-schema10
async10
api10
rest10
noaa10
json10
swagger-ui9
high-performance9
science9
fastapi9
python9
swagger9
openapi9
redoc9
pydantic8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
nickc1/skedm
Apr 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:1 release, 75 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 4 months
empirical-dynamic-modelingpythondata-sciencemachine-learningscikit-learn
nickc1/seebuoy
Feb 2019 - Jan 2023
Easily pull data from the National Data Buoy Center.
Contributions:6 releases, 1 review, 61 commits in 3 years 11 months
centernationalpythonsciencedata
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