Thad Guidry
CMO at 9tiger.io
Hefei, Anhui, China
Summary
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Top SchoolThad Guidry is a seasoned data architect and DevOps-savvy technology leader with over 13 years of experience building data platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and semantic web applications. He has driven architecture and hands-on engineering across telecom, enterprise, and startup environments—working with GitLab, Jenkins, Docker, Databases, ETL tools like Pentaho/Talend, and metadata/schema work for Schema.org, Wikidata and Freebase. An active open-source contributor, Thad has made substantive back-end improvements to the widely used OpenRefine project, focusing on data parsing, URL handling, and build reliability. He pairs deep technical expertise in linked data, taxonomies and text processing with product and go-to-market experience as CMO for early-stage ventures building low-code API platforms. Based in Hefei, China, he brings a pragmatic blend of consulting, DevOps, and semantic modeling, and—less obvious—an engineer’s curiosity that shows up in hobbyist pursuits like chess, graphics and retro PC gaming.
13 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Associates Aerospace, Associates Aerospace at Air Force
English
Stackoverflow
609reputation
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Github Skills (20)
java10
javas10
data-cleaning10
data-wrangling10
data-analysis10
data-science9
build-tools8
jython8
build-engine8
buildr8
maven7
logging7
database6
configurations6
gradle6
Programming languages (33)
Github contributions (5)
OpenRefine/OpenRefine
Aug 2013 - Jan 2023
OpenRefine is a free, open source power tool for working with messy data and improving it
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:181 reviews, 242 commits, 253 PRs in 9 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Thad primarily contributed to the Java-based back-end of the OpenRefine project. Their work includes implementing new features related to date parsing, fixing bugs associated with URL fetching, updating dependencies like Jython, and modifying core project logic. The user also added logging capabilities and made modifications to the build process, demonstrating a focus on improving the software's functionality and maintainability.
pythonopenrefinemessy-datareconciliationdatacleaning
thadguidry/openrefine.github.com
Jun 2018 - Mar 2025
Github pages repository for OpenRefine account
Contributions:3 PRs, 27 pushes, 16 branches in 6 years 9 months
accountopenrefine
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