Russell Horton, Developer in Fairfax, CA, United States
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Russell Horton

Natural Language Processing (NLP) Developer

Fairfax, CA, United States

Toptal member since March 14, 2018

Expertise
NLPMachine LearningPythonScalaJavaScriptSparkMongoDBMeteorNLTK
Bio

Russell builds data-driven products and data-driven teams. He has more than 15 years of experience inventing, rapidly prototyping, and deploying products driven by machine learning and natural language processing. Russell loves consulting on data science projects in the early stages.

Portfolio

GitHub
Machine Learning, Python
Verizon Labs
Python, Apple Logic Studio, Spark, Scala
EcoHealth Alliance
Stanford NLP, Scala, Meteor, Python

Experience

  • Natural Language Processing (NLP) - 15 years
  • Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPT) - 15 years
  • Python - 13 years
  • Machine Learning - 12 years
  • Scala - 10 years
  • Stanford NLP - 10 years
  • Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) - 10 years
  • Spark - 5 years

Preferred Environment

Prototyping, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPT), Scala, Python

The most amazing...

...project I've worked on was an early detection system for emerging pandemics for the Defense Threat Reduction agency, powered by textual analysis of local news.