Ryan Hafen
Chief Technology Officer at Hafen Consulting, LLC
West Richland, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolRyan Hafen is a seasoned data science and visualization leader with 13 years of experience applying statistical modeling, machine learning, and exploratory analysis to large, complex datasets. As CTO of Telperian and Senior Principal Data Scientist at Preva Group, he combines strategic technical leadership with hands-on development and consulting through Hafen Consulting. He brings deep research credentials from a PhD in Statistics and roles at Purdue and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, where he worked on terabyte-scale energy, sensor, and anomaly-detection projects using R, Hadoop, and custom tooling. Ryan’s work sits at the intersection of reproducible methodology, interactive visualization, and scalable analytics—skills he also teaches as a remote adjunct at Purdue. Notably, his career blends academic rigor with practical impact across energy, security, and transportation domains, and he maintains an entrepreneurial mindset dating back to early small-business and software roles. Based in West Richland, WA, he is adept at turning complex data problems into actionable insights and production-ready solutions.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS Statistics, BS Statistics at Utah State UniversityThe University of UtahPhD Statistics, PhD Statistics at Purdue University
English, Hungarian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (197)
atom-editor10
python10
loess10
divide10
geography10
remote-server10
ggplot10
javascript10
bokeh10
r10
r-package10
jupyter10
vscode-extension10
vscode10
visualization10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
hafen/datadr
Feb 2014 - Aug 2018
Contributions:3 commits, 75 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 6 months
divide
bokeh/rbokeh
Jan 2015 - Mar 2023
R interface to Bokeh http://hafen.github.io/rbokeh/
Contributions:2 releases, 142 PRs, 148 pushes in 8 years 3 months
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