Trystan Carruth

Lead Business Systems AnalystNov 2025 - Present
Laurel Mountain Partners, CO

• Optimizing data systems across waste companies

Software Developer and Data AnalystApr 2024 - Nov 2025
Monument Health, Grand Junction, CO

• Sole Developer for a custom CRM platform, managing inter-related data to drive critical operational automations and streamline data workflows across providers, practices, and stakeholders.
• Designed and implemented data pipelines utilizing the Creatio OData API and deployed Google Cloud Functions for automated data ingestion and updating, ensuring data consistency and real-time operational insights.
• Developed a suite of C# applications and Creatio integrations enabling advanced user actions such as task delegation, bulk case management, and dynamic data manipulation.
• Led iterative development cycles using Agile methodologies, gathering requirements in weekly sprints, delivering two major releases, and enhancing usability with custom JavaScript UI/UX.

Data Science and Software Development InternNov 2021 - Jun 2023
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD
Dept: Research and Exploratory Development: Human and Machine Intelligence Research Group
Project: Cohort Research Investigating Micro-Scale Optimized Networks

• Gamification of Connectomics: Developed a video game to encourage citizen science for refining computer vision algorithms that map brain connections. Responsible for gameplay design, physics/collision, movement systems, UI/UX, and data persistence using C#.
• Wastewater Disease Testing Optimization: Achieved a podium finish in a hackathon by optimizing wastewater testing locations using hierarchical graph and resource constraint optimization algorithms (DotMotif) to improve public health resource allocation for COVID-19 and Monkeypox.
• Vaccine Sentiment Analysis and Prediction: Performed sentiment analysis on 30,000 COVID-19 vaccine-related tweets, classifying them into risk groups. Utilized Python with Numpy, Pandas, Scikit-learn, and NLTK. Conducted regression to forecast sentiment and understand the relationship between vaccine support and content subjectivity.
• Neuron Proofreading: Meticulously proofread neurons in MICrONS Minnie65 brain imaging data (petabyte scale, mm³ visual cortex of a mouse) to establish ground-truth and refine computer vision algorithms, applying neuroanatomy knowledge of various cell types.
• Received technical training in Python, data science, machine learning, linear algebra, and statistics.

Infectious Disease Surveillance Research AssistantMar 2023 - May 2023
Civilience

• Developed novel data collection surveys for high-concern infectious diseases.
• Conducted literature reviews to create research-driven questions for survey participants.

Gameplay Designer and Sound/Music SpecialistSep 2022 - May 2023
Dark Touch Studios, Baltimore, MD

• Designed and balanced gameplay mechanics, character movesets, and combat systems for a 3D fighting game, ensuring a satisfying player experience.
• Created original music tracks and sound effects, collaborating closely with the development team to ensure audio assets complemented gameplay and visuals.