Jonathan Dufault
it’s usually a data problem
Full-stack data engineer and scientist, turning questions into projects. Personal work circles around NLP, food science, Arduino, infrastructure, and cartoon cats. Code is maybe 40% of figuring something out. The rest is just staring at it until it makes sense.
Recent Projects
- How do you count a million milk crates?We were losing hundreds of thousands of milk crates a year. At $4 a piece, it was half a million dollars. Conventional wisdom was that the majority of the loss was stores using them for storage, or people taking them home for furniture or their garage, but the volume we… Read more: How do you count a million milk crates?
- In-Spec Isn’t Good EnoughNote: the numbers have been changed for privacy. Every quality check was passing. Customers were calling in about a chemical taste in the water anyway. Both of those things were true at the same time. I was a continuous improvement leader at a manufacturing plant that produced spring water and… Read more: In-Spec Isn’t Good Enough
- Making Tempeh: An Unreasonably Thorough ApproachChallenging Tempeh making community advice with an Arduino and a sewing machine.