James Quacinella

5.0

(82 reviews)

US$30.00

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ABOUT ME

Professional in Python, Data Science, Automation & Systems Design

Professional computer engineer working mainly as a Python developer. My career spans Linux Systems administration to Python software engineering and automation to predictive machine learning. Masters Degree in Data Analytics, with 5 years experience in Machine Learning. Deep interest in artificial intelligence, semantic web technologies and graph databases.

Eastern Time (US & Canada) (-05:00)

Joined March 2016

EXPERTISE

Python

10 years experience | 32 endorsements

I have been using Python as a professional software developer as my number one go to language. Proficient in the python data science stac...

I have been using Python as a professional software developer as my number one go to language. Proficient in the python data science stack (including numpy, pandas,scikit-learn, statsmodel, etc) as well as backend work using Flask.

SQL

11 years experience | 9 endorsements

I have been using SQL to extract data from relational data models for over a decade. As the CTO of my startup, I have designed and implem...

I have been using SQL to extract data from relational data models for over a decade. As the CTO of my startup, I have designed and implemented relational models in use for a web backend. Well versed in best practices and ways to keep a data model optimized.

2 years experience | 1 endorsement

In earning my degree in data science, I have used R extensively for data importing, cleaning, analysing and modelling.

JavaScript

5 years experience | 1 endorsement

Proficient in base JS, Jquery and some frameworks like Angular

Linux

15 years experience | 1 endorsement

I have been using as my sole operating systems since I was a teenager. I use Ubuntu personally, but have used CentOS, Redhat as well as o...

I have been using as my sole operating systems since I was a teenager. I use Ubuntu personally, but have used CentOS, Redhat as well as others. I have over a decades worth of experience in professional systems administration as well.

Data Science

3 years experience

I just earned a masters degree in Data Science, which included classes on visualization, importing, clearing, organizing, predictive mode...

I just earned a masters degree in Data Science, which included classes on visualization, importing, clearing, organizing, predictive modelling, graph analysis, and handling big data.

Docker

1 year experience | 4 endorsements

I have been using docker, docker machien and swarm in production for some time now. I have used them in conjuntion with Jenkins for an au...

I have been using docker, docker machien and swarm in production for some time now. I have used them in conjuntion with Jenkins for an automated testing workflow for my startup

Docker Compose Dockerfile Boot2docker

Docker Compose Dockerfile Boot2docker Docker Registry Docker Dockerhub Docker swarm

REVIEWS FROM CLIENTS

5.0

(82 reviews)

Zachary Morin

August 2023

James was a tremendous help and extremely knowledgeable! He was patient with me and made sure I understood everything we did together. I would highly recommend James to anyone looking for some extra help.

Joe Foley

March 2023

Truly truly super. Get James if you can

s c

December 2016

Super helpful.

Amanda

November 2016

I am so thankful for finding James . He helped me better understand my project and I now have a better understanding of python in general. James presented me with guidance and suggestions that opened my mind up to the possibilities for project and introduced me to new methods and code. Highly recommended, very clear and well spoken and easy to follow.

Chase Johnson

November 2016

Great mentor

Chase Johnson

October 2016

Great mentor.

Del Ventruella

October 2016

A great guy!

Del Ventruella

October 2016

A good guy.

Sam R.

October 2016

Great mentor, very helpful and patient and explains things well.

Miro

October 2016

Professional, efficient and highly communicative.

SOCIAL PRESENCE

GitHub

flask-tester-docker

flask-tester-docker for Code Mentor Office Hours for Docker pt 1

Shell

LivingWageModelExtension

Github repo for everything relating to my master's capstone project

Jupyter Notebook

Community Posts

Using Docker and Docker Compose for Local Development and Small Deployments

In this tutorial, I’ll introduce Docker, what all the hype has been about, what advantages it can give you, and how you can get started using it for you development projects.

EMPLOYMENTS

CTO

Aliya Financial Technologies

2017-02-01-2022-10-01

Migrated Aliya's older Data Science platform to a newer, scalable open-source platform, resulting in ~ 70% reduction of AWS costs for DS,...

Migrated Aliya's older Data Science platform to a newer, scalable open-source platform, resulting in ~ 70% reduction of AWS costs for DS, while improving cloud utilization and throughput of the DS team. Provided support to our CISO to maintain Aliya's security controls and pass our SOC-2 and 3rd-party security audits. Designed and deployed infrastructure to deploy, backup, and scale a secure production API wrapping our custom credit risk machine learning models to the cloud, with a 99.999% up-time SLA. Designed and implemented Aliya's Payroll Integration (aVerify) product from conception to productionization. Implemented various techniques, from Lambda functions to spot instances, to reduce Aliya's overall cloud footprint. Reduced our monthly spend across all accounts by ~50%.

Python

Machine learning

Docker

Python

Machine learning

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

CTO / Co-Founder

Credacious

2013-09-01-2017-04-01

As Co-Founder, helped our Founder fully design our vision for what it would take to build the 'credible web'. As CTO, I lead all technic...

As Co-Founder, helped our Founder fully design our vision for what it would take to build the 'credible web'. As CTO, I lead all technical efforts to build the platform, which included designing and implementing the platform, including backend APIs (Python), frontend applications (AngularJS), and hosting the application on DigitalOcean

Python

Angular

DigitalOcean

Python

Angular

DigitalOcean