Jonathan Cachat, PhD

Dir of Data Science & MLops @TorchlightAI

🧑‍🔬 EngineerArchitect✨ Business OwnerCTO3D DesignerGraphic Designer🐦 Design👍 Sales & BizDev💼 C-level ExecutiveBusiness Owner💰 Investor & VC🔥 Startup Founder✔️ ITSystem ArchitectFounderQA EngineerDatabase DeveloperML EngineerData ScientistData EngineerData Analyst

lead DS, DnA & Engineering teams through complete cloud infra transformation on time & under budget. oversaw, managed and orchestrated ingestion of over 100MM rows of new data nightly.pre-processed global geolocation data, netflow & user activity logs to stage for analytics. feature engineering, model evaluation & containerized deployment for analytics to extract patterns of life. Migrated pipelines from GCS, BigQuery & Airflow to BigTable, DataFlow (Beam), Spanner & VertexAI. > behavioral intelligence platform for analytics & models of emerging risk, fraud & other target activities of interest. government, defense & private markets > Analyzed global human movement patterns in near-real-time, covering {1,000+} datasets daily. > custom model development for dept of defense partners > generative ai for internal dev tools & user experience improvements

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Work Background

Cardinal HealthSr Data Engineer (AI/ML Analytics Team)

May. 2022 - Aug. 2022Ohio, United StatesAs a GCP Data Engineer on the AI/ML Team (Data & Analytics) at Cardinal Health, I engaged with business stakeholders to understand analysis goals and source data to be transformed into business insights. As a team leader, I took pride in ensuring the validity, and timeliness of the data I delivered. Moreover, I developed workflows for Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA profiling), validation, monitoring & establishing contingency plans across dynamic, cloud-based data pipelines. I ingested historical business data (demand, sales, inventory, logistics) and processed external factors (environmental, medical, social, & financial indicators) to transform and improve predictive models used for strategic planning. This work was performed remotely, in collaboration with a small team of data scientists organized to deliver incremental value via Scrum sprints. Within a few months, our team was able to improve demand forecasting models for kits sold from company distribution centers - reducing waste & increasing fill rates significantly. Primary technical tools included Google Cloud Platform - BigQuery (SQL)/GCS, Vertex AI, Dataflow & Cloud Composer (Airflow), and Python (pandas, jupyter). Most often, I excelled by performing intital EDA on raw data, developing ingestion methods into Warehouses/Lakes, and transformation/processing of data for cleaned data feature engineering & modeling input. I was also able to contrbute to ML/AI effort by comparatively evaluating different approaches (ARIMA vs PROPHET), and verifying data prep for maximum utilization in model algorithms. References Available & Below.

TorchlightAIDir of Data Science & MLops

Jan. 2022 - May. 2024United Stateslead DS, DnA & Engineering teams through complete cloud infra transformation on time & under budget. oversaw, managed and orchestrated ingestion of over 100MM rows of new data nightly. pre-processed global geolocation data, netflow & user activity logs to stage for analytics. feature engineering, model evaluation & containerized deployment for analytics to extract patterns of life. Migrated pipelines from GCS, BigQuery & Airflow to BigTable, DataFlow (Beam), Spanner & VertexAI. > behavioral intelligence platform for analytics & models of emerging risk, fraud & other target activities of interest. government, defense & private markets > Analyzed global human movement patterns in near-real-time, covering {1,000+} datasets daily. > custom model development for dept of defense partners > generative ai for internal dev tools & user experience improvements

Seinergy LLCData Scientist & Data Systems Engineer / Technical Analyst

Jan. 2019 - Jan. 2020Ohio, United StatesSeinergy is a small team that has brought in over $22MM in energy rebate incentives for cannabis growers, saving over 140MM kWh/year of new grid hookups. I successfully transitioned the team, data, and business workflows over to the Google Cloud Platform and continue to optimize and expand these systems to meet ongoing business needs. The transition to GCP allowed Seinergy to save thousands of dollars, expand the business productivity, and boost revenues within 7 mths. As a Technical Director with Zativa, I coordinated with Ohio State University (OSU) and the OH Dept of Agriculture to plant & monitor the first legal hemp growing season at the Wooser Extension Campous.

Midway Lab LLC & Hocking CollegeScientific Director | Director of Laboratory Sciences

Sep. 2017 - Jan. 2021Columbus, Ohio Metropolitan AreaLed application development, floor plan design & operational strategy leading to the opening of two-state-licensed cannabis analytical labs in Ohio MMCP market - Hocking College & Midway Lab LLC. Created & championed the nation's first accredited Associate's Degree in Cannabis Lab Technician - which has been one of the most popular programs at Hocking since day 1.

CCV ResearchDir Data Engineer & MLops

Jan. 2015NationwideConsulting, project-based work. Provide operational & tech-based, data-driven research and development services. Reduce COGs to maximize competitive advantages, expand products & customer profiles to improve recommendation and projection models. Modernize and Automate business processes in the cloud to rapidly scale services, minimize infrastructural risks & sell to more customers. Technical Tools: Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Professional Data Engineer, DataPrep, CloudStorage, BigQuery, Data Studio, Compute, Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub, and of course, the workspace standard tools – like Connected Sheets, for loading BigQuery datasets into sheets. I am competent with AppScript, Add-ons & other integration platforms/APIs. Modernize and Automate business processes in the cloud to rapidly scale services, minimize infrastructural risks & sell to more customers.

Conscious Cannabis Ventures, Fleurish Farms, SunGrown ZeroFounder, CEO & CTO

Jan. 2014 - Jan. 2018Developed Novel Hybrid-Light Cultivation Facility thru targeted R&D integrating grow room intelligence (Grownetics), responsive LEDs, and Solatube Daylighting Devices. Reduced energy and water use by > 75%, matched production rates, and improved product quality as defined by potency and terpene profiles.