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
- 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.
- Strategy is a StoryIn 2016, during my MBA at Cal State Long Beach, I competed in a semester-long business simulation competition. Five teams running fictional companies, making quarterly decisions on pricing, production, marketing, and R&D. I was the CIO for ours. When I downloaded the year 3 quarter 4 reports, I found the… Read more: Strategy is a Story