Richard St John
Principal Software Engineer, Applied Mathematician
Crofton, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard St John is a Principal Software Engineer and applied mathematician with 11+ years building high-performance, data-centric platforms and production ML systems. He blends deep academic training (PhD in Applied and Computational Mathematics) with hands-on engineering—from designing TensorFlow/Keras models and cloud-native microservices to optimizing DevOps with Docker and Kubernetes. His career spans defense-grade simulation and high-energy laser modeling to commercial anomaly detection and network defense analytics, reflecting a rare mix of scientific rigor and pragmatic productization. Based in Crofton, Maryland, he has a track record of migrating legacy systems to AWS and building scalable full-stack solutions, and even co-authored a simulation framework and a secure password manager. Notably, he pairs mathematical modeling instincts with practical system design to turn complex analytics into deployable, observable platforms.
11 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Applied and Computational Mathematics, PhD Applied and Computational Mathematics at Old Dominion University
Github Skills (12)
java10
ansible-role10
apache9
ansible9
apache-nifi9
web-application6
grails6
groovy6
controller5
application-framework3
homebrew2
macos1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
bluehalo/ansible-role-nifi
Apr 2017 - Apr 2022
Contributions:1 review, 110 commits, 52 PRs in 5 years
bluehalo/nifi-nar-bundles
Sep 2017 - Sep 2022
Contributions:2 reviews, 183 commits, 80 PRs in 5 years
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