Matt Holford

Data Scientist

https://www.opentalent.in/matt-holford

VP Engineering at @myfitnesspal

MyFitnessPal

Key Strengths

Current role as Data Scientist at MyFitnessPal indicates direct relevance to the target role.
Experience with Prophet forecasting for Data Science (forecasting-ds project) is a direct strength for a Data Scientist role.
Exposure to various technologies (PHP, JavaScript, CSS, Shell, Ruby) demonstrates a broad technical background, though not all directly relevant to Data Science.

Cultural & Operational Fit

Cultural Fit Analysis

The candidate's projects are primarily personal and demonstrate a self-starter attitude. However, the diversity of projects leans heavily towards web development (PHP, Drupal) and DevOps, with only one project directly related to Data Science ('forecasting-ds'). This suggests a potential misalignment in the breadth of Data Science specific experience compared to the target role, though the current employment as a Data Scientist is a positive indicator. The lack of team-based or collaborative project descriptions makes it difficult to assess cultural fit beyond individual initiative.

Soft Skills & Operational Fit

Insufficient data to assess soft skills or operational fit. The provided data focuses on technical projects and a current role.

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Projects

mini-rfc

January 30, 2026 – Present

Mini RFC template (Markdown)

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forecasting-ds

January 4, 2020 – August 23, 2022

Prophet forecasting for DS.

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reusablekcup

November 16, 2016 – November 16, 2016

How to use the reusable K-Cup.

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sample-user-api

August 25, 2014 – September 3, 2014

Reference REST user API implementation in Laravel.

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logstash-salt

November 8, 2013 – December 19, 2013

A Logstash-Elasticsearch-Kibana stack build with Vagrant and Salt

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dosomething

October 19, 2013 – September 16, 2014

A private Drupal 7 distribution that will power the DoSomething.org website.

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ctos4g-2013-devops

September 20, 2013 – September 23, 2013

DevOps session at 2013 CTOs For Good unconference.

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buildertests

July 19, 2013 – July 19, 2013

Messing around with Selenium Builder.

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admin_menu_path

February 25, 2011 – February 25, 2011

Path-based display control for Drupal's Administration Menu module.

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pixel_pusher

September 24, 2010 – February 3, 2011

A pixel traffic tracker for Drupal, including integration with Pixel Ping from Pro Publica and DocumentCloud.

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Key Strengths

Current role as Data Scientist at MyFitnessPal indicates direct relevance to the target role.
Experience with Prophet forecasting for Data Science (forecasting-ds project) is a direct strength for a Data Scientist role.
Exposure to various technologies (PHP, JavaScript, CSS, Shell, Ruby) demonstrates a broad technical background, though not all directly relevant to Data Science.

Cultural & Operational Fit

Cultural Fit Analysis

Soft Skills & Operational Fit

Insufficient data to assess soft skills or operational fit. The provided data focuses on technical projects and a current role.

Matt Holford

Key Strengths

Cultural & Operational Fit

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Key Strengths

Cultural & Operational Fit