Rory Woods
Senior Data Scientist
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolRory Woods is a Senior Data Scientist with 13 years of experience applying physics-rooted rigor to industrial machine learning and predictive maintenance for vehicles. At Preteckt he progressed from Lead to Senior Data Scientist, owning data analysis, ML strategy, and backend services that translate telemetry into actionable maintenance insights. His academic background—MSc and PhD in Physics and Astronomy—underpins a strong modeling and quantitative intuition, forged earlier by research in solar system dust and meteorite ablation. Based in Hamilton, Ontario, he combines hands-on engineering with teaching experience from McMaster, making him skilled at explaining complex models to technical and non-technical stakeholders. Colleagues would note his uncommon blend of deep scientific training and production-focused software delivery.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Physics and Astronomy, 10.8/12, Master of Science, Physics and Astronomy, 10.8/12 at McMaster UniversityBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Physics, 3.9/4.3, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Physics, 3.9/4.3 at Mount Allison University
English
Github Skills (16)
gravity8
orbital-mechanics7
power-systems7
python7
geodesy7
simulations7
geophysics6
hydrodynamics6
machine-learning6
astrodynamics6
modeling6
data-science5
dagster5
database2
timeseries-database1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
rmwoods/beer.ai
Dec 2017 - Jul 2021
Using Machine Learning to generate new beers
Contributions:3 reviews, 347 commits, 22 PRs in 3 years 7 months
beerspythonmachine-learningdata-science
rmwoods/phd
Mar 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:35 commits, 33 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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