Christopher Hicks Email & Phone Number

Moline, Il, Us

I am a Tech Lead Manager for a team of software engineers that supports our enterprise Feature Engineering platform, Model Deployment platform, and associated applications.Some of my recent work includes:- Lead engineering efforts in cross-functional projects, delivering AI/ML applications to customers.- Evaluate new, innovative technologies in the Data and AI space, providing recommendations to external vendors and internal stakeholders.- Grew a team from one to seven, at various seniority levels, to support our growing business needs.- Established SLO's and other Site Reliability Engineering best practices to ensure production-readiness.- Serve as a technical mentor for Data Science and Engineering professionals across the John Deere.- Presented notable projects at industry events, such as the Data and AI Summit: https://youtu.be/C1kYNsmJ7ho

Moline, Il, Us

Helping build a world class data platform for advanced analytics and artificial intelligence on the Precision Ag Analytics engineering team.Some of my work included:- Developed the first petabyte-scale agronomic data lake at John Deere.- Led design and implementation of a Feature Store, including an offline store for model training, and an online store for real-time model inference via API's.- Collaborated with Data Science and Product Management leaders to deliver data science products to production.- Implemented geospatial algorithms at petabyte-scale by extending Apache Spark's catalyst engine.- Designed infrastructure to deploy ML models to production, providing technical guidance to ML Ops teams at John Deere.

Des Moines, Ia, Us

Built Python microservices hosted on Google Cloud Platform for a disruptive insurtech/regtech SAAS offering

Johnston, Ia, Us

Tech lead for a small team that develops reusable UI components and microservices.Develop Angular 5 applications with an emphasis on architecture and web performance.Develop Python and Node.js microservices that integrate with PostgreSQL and DynamoDB databasesCollaborate with other developers on architecture decisions, complex implementations, and to promote best practices.Created architecture and early implementation to replace legacy Cordova iOS app to a cross-platform Xamarin Forms mobile app.

Developed native mobile Android, iOS, and Windows Phone applications.Developed web applications using AngularJS, Knockout, and Bootstrap.Developed RESTful Web APIs for mobile apps and websites using ASP.NET and Entity Framework.Restructured database schema and queries to optimize ETL process, utilizing SSIS and SQL Server.Designed applications to comply with multiple standards, including PCI and OWASP.Provided technical expertise on architecture for mobile apps, websites, and backend services.

In this role, I developed on-board display software for agricultural equipment. This software automated the functions of hardware and control systems on the equipment, to analyze agronomic and machine performance, and synced these measurements to an enterprise research database.

Des Moines, Iowa, Us

Application Development (Java)

Kansas City, Missouri, Us

Graduate Certificate, System Design And Management

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science, Software Engineering