Zachary Hafen-saavedra
Manager Of Specialty Analytics at Northwestern University - The Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolZachary Hafen-saavedra is a data scientist and manager based in Chicago with over a decade of experience translating complex research and operational problems into reliable, production-ready analytics. Currently leading Specialty Analytics at Northwestern Medicine, he mentors embedded developer teams to turn clinical data into actionable research outputs that support life-saving studies. His background spans astrophysics PhD research and museum-based data science, where he built high-throughput georeferencing pipelines and containerized ETL deployments that scaled image processing from single digits to thousands per hour. Comfortable from supercomputers to AWS and Docker, he combines strong software-engineering practices with domain fluency in healthcare and science, and a track record of creating educational programs and open-source tools that broaden participation in data literacy.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Theoretical and Mathematical Physics at Northwestern UniversityBachelor's Degree, Mathematical Physics, Bachelor's Degree, Mathematical Physics at University of Northern ColoradoResearch Internship, Physics, Research Internship, Physics at University of Birmingham
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Github Skills (43)
astronomy9
viewer9
planets9
spectral9
synthetic9
simulations9
scientific-visualization9
geophysics9
oceanography8
scientific-computing8
python8
pong8
raycasting8
astrophysics8
visualization8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
zhafen/verdict
Sep 2018 - Mar 2023
A version of Python's dictionary class that has additional features.
Contributions:1 PR, 61 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 6 months
dictionarypythonphoneticsadditionalpython3
AdlerFarHorizons/NITELite-pipeline
Jan 2024 - Jun 2024
Contributions:390 pushes, 1 branch, 14 comments in 4 months
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