Shawn Hermans
Owner at Shawnsulting
Omaha, Nebraska, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShawn Hermans is a data engineering and data science leader with 13+ years of experience building scalable big-data systems and teams, now running his own consulting practice in Omaha. His background spans Hadoop ecosystems, NoSQL, ETL, geospatial and real-time data pipelines, with hands-on work in Java, Python and enterprise SOA architectures. He has led geographically distributed teams to deliver near-real-time event-sharing services and has applied mathematical rigor from an early career as a cryptographic mathematician at the NSA. At Bellevue University and in open-source coursework he’s combined statistical modeling and data visualization to translate complex datasets into actionable insights. Known for balancing technical depth with programmatic and operational constraints, he brings a rare mix of research-level math, network modeling experience, and practical production engineering.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
MS (Not Completed) Computer Science, MS (Not Completed) Computer Science at University of Nebraska at OmahaMilbank High SchoolBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Physics and Mathematics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Physics and Mathematics at Saint John's UniversityM.S Physics, M.S Physics at The Ohio State University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (22)
data-visualizations10
r10
data-visualisation10
linear-regression10
data-wrangling10
data-visualization10
ggplot10
data-analysis10
dataframe9
dataframes9
statistics9
readr8
databases7
database7
rest6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
bellevue-university/dsc520
Apr 2020 - Apr 2020
Role in this project:
Data Scientist
Data ScientistContributions:13 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 9 days
Contributions summary:Shawn contributed to multiple assignments within the DSC520 repository, primarily focusing on data analysis and statistical concepts. Their work included creating vectors, matrices, and dataframes, and manipulating data using functions like `sum`, `mean`, `summary`, and `order`. The user demonstrated skills in data visualization with `ggplot2`, fitting linear models, and calculating statistical metrics such as R-squared. They also worked with datasets and database interactions.
bellevue-university/dsc400
Nov 2020 - Feb 2023
Contributions:6 PRs, 32 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 3 months
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