Peter Groves Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Illinois, US

• Software Architect sitting on the Data Science team.
• (2023) Technical Lead for Communication Analysis in Reveal-Enterprise: Led the backend development of a new communication analysis feature built from scratch. Lead Java developer for core system including algorithm.
• (2024) Engineering Owner for "Ask" in Reveal-Enterprise. Led the transition of a data science prototype of a RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) indexed with customer data, called Ask, into a production feature..
• (2024, ongoing) Product Engineering for a forward-looking eDiscovery feature using generative AI.

Urbana, Illinois, US

• As a Senior Software Engineer, my focus was on Backend and Machine Learning within the Biology Visualization Group at NCSA. Our projects develop visualization design and machine learning approaches to address global.
• (2016-2019) Lead Backend Developer of a platform for data science and web applications. This platform is based on common data types shared between frontend, backend, and data science jobs. Technology uses Docker.
• (2018-2019) Project Manager and Lead Developer of the DeepPhoton Project. DeepPhoton is the analysis of Multiphotonic images (an imaging technique that allows intact biological samples to be visualized at high.
• (2016) Lead Backend Developer for Omix Omix is a webapp that visualizes microbiome analytical results built in collaboration with Mayo Clinic’s Center for Individualized Medicine. This project involved the design and.

Champaign, Illinois, US

Visual Intelligence for Biology moved from ARI to NCSA in 2016 due to a reorg - projects and team were not changed.

Chicago, IL, US

• As part of the Automated Merchandising team, I was responsible for bundling deals (Groupons) into widgets to be displayed anywhere on the Groupon website or mobile apps. Personal areas of focus:
• Machine learning system for adjusting the relative rankings of widgets in different contexts.
• Integration test suite of the core system, written in Python.
• Build automation using Python, Capistrano, Maven, Jenkins, and cron.
• General software engineering of a Java webapp on an 8 person agile software team.
• International rollout of core service to 20 countries in Europe and Latin America.

• As an independent contractor I worked on the following projects:
• (2013) Nexlp. An e-Discovery startup in Chicago. Their core product uses a natural language processing toolkit from the University of Illinois and a graph database (Neo4j) to analyze sets of millions of emails at a.
• (2013) rVibe. A boutique maker of training software for the pharmaceutical industry. Handled devops for the company for nine months. Designed and implemented build tools and a performance benchmarking suite. Performed.
• (2011-2012)Fuzzy economics project. Privately funded by a (stealth) organization, this was a bleeding edge project to create a system for creating expansive yet detailed ontologies of hypotheses and their supporting.

Developed an algorithmic trading application written in Ocaml using genetic algorithm and statistical modeling techniques to find market price patterns on a time scale of less than one hour. Trading strategy optimization is the first application that uses DesignByRobot's data model for machine learning and automated design technology..

Acted as a core developer and release engineer for project SEASR. SEASR is a development platform and analytics toolkit for Humanities research communities to to develop, share, and deploy analytics driven web applications, primarily involving digitized document collections. Primary responsibility was design and execution of release process, including.

Acted as technical liason to sales and marketing. Brought technical expertise to solution consultations, sales calls, investor briefings, and other customer facing situations. Also responsible for defining marketing messaging by authoring abstracts and white papers, particularly in new markets and early stage product roll-outs.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Computer Science

Bachelor'S Degree, Agricultural Engineering