Dylan Blanchard Email & Phone Number

Dylan Blanchard is a Director of Analytic Engineering at Fenris Digital at Fenris Digital. He possess expertise in python, pandas, scikit learn, r, git and 6 more skills. Colleagues describe him as "Dylan worked for me as a Senior Research Scientist at Alteryx. His role required depth in graduate-level applied mathematics, software and data architecture, coding, and product-development process. I can’t recommend him too highly. Dylan brings exceptional mathematical depth and rigor to the job, more than most PhD data scientists I have worked with. He naturally anticipates and accounts for the mathematical consequences of modeling decisions such as induction-algorithm selection. He has learned quickly how to find or spot data-science design patterns (and anti-patterns). Dylan is also a gifted software architect and programmer, especially for someone so early in a data-science career. He intuits well the relative importance of architectural concerns such as extensibility and maintainability, and is highly creative in identifying technical approaches that avoid false dichotomies to which more experienced but less resourceful designers fall prey. Dylan nevertheless displays a realistic humility towards the software-architecture tradition, absorbing its literature at a remarkable pace. Finally, Dylan is an extremely productive programmer. He has a keen devotion to product-development discipline where it matters most—test-driven development and similar best practices. For Dylan adhering to coding standards is no less important as an engineering practice for being intellectually trivial. As a result his code is uniformly readable and (more generally) maintainable. The thing I admire most about Dylan is his leadership style. At Alteryx Dylan regularly took the initiative to surface the thorniest technical and process issues, remaining resolutely egoless while leading the team through discussions of the alternatives, their merits and liabilities, and then immediately documenting the team’s decisions once we reached consensus. Afterwards Dylan was always the team member who showed the most respect for the team’s decisions, regardless of whether these reflected his personal judgments or preferences. In this regard especially, Dylan often did my job for me. Let me mention three of Dylan’s recent achievements. First, he coded a method for automatically generating new functional tests from old. (Nobody had done this previously at Alteryx over its 20-year history.) Second, he architected a declarative-programming framework that will increase analytical-tool development velocity by several orders of magnitude. Third, he co-architected the engine for a data-science intelligent assistant. (The second and third projects include a relational-database layer, an engine layer, and an API.) These are all remarkably abstract architectural feats at his career level. I hope I’ll have occasion to work with Dylan again. I expect great things of him."

Listed skills include Python, Pandas, Scikit Learn, R, and 7 others.