Chris J Mears

Hi! My name is Chris.

I'm an aspiring Machine Learning Engineer specializing in Analytics Engineering, with expertise in Full-Stack Engineering, Data Visualization, and Healthcare Analysis.

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Open Brewery DB Logo

Open Brewery DB is a free and open-source dataset and API with public information on breweries, cideries, brewpubs, and bottleshops. It is also a growing Discord community of beer-loving developers and data scientists.

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#open-source#api
Brewery Review Analysis with NLP and NER title slide

The final Springboard Data Science Career Track Capstone project using natural language processing and named entity recognition.

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#nlp#spaCy
Precision Recall AUC model evaluation plot

Springboard Data Science Career Track capstone project that analyzes and fits various classification models to an imbalanced credit card fraud dataset.

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#scikit-learn
Coffee Ratio Calculator Logo of a pour-over coffee brew

Calculate perfect coffee-to-water ratios for pour over, French press, espresso, and more. Get tailored recommendations based on roast level, grind size, and brew method.

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#svelte#coffee
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Kirtan Kriya Timer

A meditation timer for practicing Kirtan Kriya, a meditation technique from the Kundalini yoga tradition.

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#meditation#timer
Meditation Timer

A simple meditation timer to enhance your practice with gentle interval bells and healing solfeggio frequencies.

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#meditation#timer#solfeggio
Neural network field visualization with moon cluster dataset.

A simple interactive 2D classification demo built with C++, OpenGL, and WebAssembly (WASM).

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#neural-network#C++#OpenGL#WASM

About Me

Me and Cooper, the tiny black dog.
  • I'm a builder who spent two decades writing software, got curious about what the data actually said, and went back to school in my forties to learn the math and research principles. Now I design data systems that don't fall over, from healthcare claims pipelines and LLM evaluations to analytics products. I thrive at companies that need someone to own ambiguous, end-to-end problems.
  • Through my consulting practice, Wandering Leaf Studios , I help teams turn messy data into clear strategy. Having worked across Fortune 500s, startups, non-profits, and universities, I'm always chasing the same question: Are we building what actually matters?
  • Outside of work, I maintain Open Brewery DB , an open-source dataset and API I built that serves nearly 1 million weekly requests on a pocket-change budget. I'm also a student and graduate TA for Georgia Tech's Online Masters of Science in Analytics (OMSA) program and doing my best to learn in public.

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