Maile Thayer

Maile is the clear standout in this batch and the only one with verified external open-source contributions. The account shows 11 commits in the last year and real authored work on two CDCgov repositories: leptospirosis_thresholds (7 commits) and dengue_epidemic_thresholds (4 commits), epidemiological-threshold modeling in R. Of five original repos and an R/Shell stack, the profile aligns with a data/SRE focus from Puerto Rico. Caveats remain honest: the repos carry no stars, there is one follower, and most personal repos are abandoned. But unlike the rest of this cohort, there is recent, concrete, externally-validated contribution to meaningful public-health code. Worth a real look for data/ML or analytics-engineering roles.