Max Flander

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Member since November 29, 2015

Max has a PhD in Mathematics. He has been working as a data scientist for the past 3 years with experience covering: data engineering, predictive modeling, recommender systems, information retrieval, and crowd-sourced data curation. He's an excellent communicator and has worked in Agile teams of varying sizes. He's a favorite for running stand-ups, planning, and team retros; thanks to his knack for cutting to the heart of the discussion at hand.

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Portfolio

SEEK Ltd
Python, Hadoop/Spark, AWS
Predictive Match
Python, AWS, RapidMiner

Experience

Unix, 10 years
Python, 8 years
Git, 5 years
Scikit-learn, 3 years
Amazon Web Services (AWS), 3 years
Agile Software Development, 3 years
Apache Spark, 2 years
Hadoop, 2 years

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

*nix, Git, Docker, AWS

The most amazing...

...feeling I have is when I can help make people's life at work easier through through analysis, tools and engineering, or just a productive discussion.

Employment

Data Scientist
SEEK Ltd
2014 - PRESENT
- Performed data analysis and modelling using Python, Pandas, and scikit-learn.
- Worked on a team building a Haskell ETL pipeline.
- Implemented real time data visualization using D3, Google Maps, and Tableau.
- Built a 20 GB per day AWS S3 JSON to HDFS/Impala ETL pipeline using Hive and Hadoop Streaming.
- Crowd sourced data curation using CrowdFlower.
- Built and deployed a Batch-scored predictive model running on 6 million records per week on a SQL Server.
Technologies: Python, Hadoop/Spark, AWS
Data Scientist
Predictive Match
2013 - 2014
- Built a recommender system for a real estate website using Python.
- Developed a prioritization model for recommendation algorithms using RapidMiner.
- Implemented data analysis and visualization using a Python data science stack.
- Performed clustering analysis of users using scikit-learn.
- Collaborated using Trello and Bitbucket.
Technologies: Python, AWS, RapidMiner

Skills

Languages
Python, SQL, Clojure, Haskell, JavaScript, Ruby
Frameworks
Hadoop, Apache Spark, AWS EMR, Flask, ClojureScript, Windows PowerShell
Libraries/APIs
Matplotlib, Pandas, Scikit-learn, Requests
Paradigms
Agile Software Development, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), Functional Programming, Unit Testing
Platforms
Unix, Linux, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Windows Server 2012, Microsoft Windows
Storage
Microsoft SQL Server, AWS Redshift, AWS S3, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB
Other
Regular Expressions, Web Scraping, Integration Testing, Elasticsearch
Tools
Emacs, Tableau, Git, AWS CloudFormation

Education

PhD degree in Mathematics
University of Melburne - Melbourne, Australia
2009 - 2013
Bachelor of Science (Honors) degree in Mathematics
University of Melburne - Melbourne, Australia
2003 - 2006

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