ABOUT ME
John-Michael
If you really want to know about me, I guess the best place to start is where I was born, or maybe that I had a typical 90s childhood, and that I’m “not your typical millennial”, but you don’t really want to know about all that. In the first place, you can find that all online nowadays, and in the second, being “not your typical millennial” means I’m your everyday millennial.
But really, as you’ve come to find from the glaringly large letters above, my name is John-Michael Paraiso. I came into this world on the dance floor, quite literally, my mom’s water broke in a club. Ironically, and unfortunately for me, that doesn’t make me a great dancer. But that doesn’t stop me from trying.

I’ve worn a number of different hats in my lifetime from student, to engineer, all the way to genius, and most recently data scientist. But before all that, and most importantly, I’m a husband and father. My family means the world to me and everything I am able to do is thanks to them.
After spending some time as an engineer, I decided to learn programming and data science because I came to find that I wanted to help drive a company’s decision making process. It is my belief that data should be behind the majority of decision-making and that the story that data tells is just as important as the resulting decision.
Data science offers a new frontier for exploration, discovery, and optimization. By trade and nature, as an engineer, efficiency and logic dictate my thought process allowing me to see beyond the noise and identify patterns and insights otherwise missed.
Im not as clever as I’d like to think, but maybe that means I’m just clever enough. If you’d like to know more about me go ahead and follow me on the social media of your choice, browse the blog, or reach out – I’m an open book.

- (571) 279-4668
- JMParaiso@gmail.com
- Northern Virginia
I typically reply to all email inquiries within 24 hours.