John Wagster

About John Wagster

Manager, Architect, Researcher, and Software Developer specializing in natural language processing, client solutions, data analysis/science, and software architecture development with an emphasis on intelligent systems (AI). Experienced in a broad range of computer science and computer engineering topics including computer security and algorithms design. Personal interest in neural systems including deep learning with neural networks, radial-basis networks, and in general pattern analysis using statistical models and learning algorithms. Most of my personal experience is with neural networks and through my career much of my experience has been with probabilistic graph models such as conditional random fields.Paradigms: Natural language processing, artificial intelligence, neural systems (neural networks), genetic algorithms, clustering algorithms, design patterns in object oriented programming, data mining algorithms, data security, web technologies including server administrationExperienced in the following Programming Languages: Java, Kotlin, Python, Bash

Experience

1. Senior Software Engineer

   Elastic

   May 2024 — Present

   All things Vector Databases, Vector Search, and Lucene!

Education

• Case Western Reserve University

  BS, Computer Science

  2002 — 2006

• Vanderbilt University

  MS, Computer Science

  2006 — 2008

Skills

• Linux
• Design Patterns
• Natural Language Processing
• Software Engineering
• Artificial Intelligence
• Machine Learning
• C#
• Oop
• Neural Networks
• Web Development
• C++
• Data Analysis
• Data Mining
• Pumpkin Spice Latte
• Hadoop
• Algorithms
• Java
• Operating Systems
• Pattern Recognition
• Os X
• Distributed Systems
• Computer Science
• Programming
• Software Development
• Python