Shane Orr
Creator & Lead Developer
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolShane Orr is a creator and lead developer who turns complex education and justice-sector data into decision-ready stories, blending a former legal career with eight years of applied data science. He designs end-to-end analytics ecosystems—ETL pipelines, internal R/Python packages, relational databases, and interactive dashboards—that have accelerated insight cycles fivefold and cut report production from days to hours. His technical toolkit spans causal inference and Bayesian hierarchical modeling, Postgres/SQLite and AWS, R/Python package development, and LLM-powered semantic search and summarization. Notably, he built an open, AI-driven platform indexing 23,000+ federal documents using FastAPI, Next.js, SQLite, and GPT-5.4 embeddings to make legal text accessible to lay audiences. Shane’s unusual combination of courtroom rigor, military field-briefing experience, and reproducible-data engineering makes him effective translating technical evidence for superintendents, deans, legislators, and the public. Based in Winston-Salem, NC, he focuses on projects that improve student outcomes and expand access to justice.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Juris Doctor, Juris Doctor at University of Kentucky J. David Rosenberg College of LawMasters in Data Analytics, Masters in Data Analytics at Penn State UniversityBachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Economics and Accounting, Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Economics and Accounting at University of Central Arkansas
Github Skills (1)
javascript5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
forsythfuture/benefits-cliff
May 2019 - Sep 2021
Contributions:232 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
forsythfuture/income-insufficiency
Oct 2018 - Apr 2022
Contributions:73 pushes in 3 years 6 months
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