I celebrated my 1-year work anniversary at ASAPP this past week. So now that I possess one year of professional experience as a machine learning engineer (aka ML engineer or MLE) – what has this past year been like for me?
Before ML, I spent 5 years as a traditional software engineer, building web services and web-based technology for Microsoft OneNote. I love the web, and I loved the new-initiative energy surrounding the Services team in particular at OneNote (an Office product that existed...
I am a software engineer who likes to code for the web. I took leave from Microsoft OneNote so that I can study deep learning full time as an OpenAI Scholar. I blog here (mainly) as I dabble with data, NLP, and machine learning.
Catch me at your local music festival, otherwise. Or on a field nearby playing flag football.
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Adventure Time! (resume)
Moved to NYC to join startup ASAPP as a machine learning engineer — working on large-scale problems in customer interaction and healthcare!
Attended PHAROS at Tapapakanga Regional Park in Auckland, New Zealand #LiveMusic
Granted scholarship to study deep learning as an OpenAI Scholar (learnings)
Completed Practical Deep Learning For Coders, Part 1 by fast.ai (notes)
Attended Paradiso at the Gorge, WA #LiveMusic
Started this blog to dive deeper into data products!
My side projects centered around “big”-data-for-news ideas (The Tech Machine; Trending News), building off of my PrefixSpan experience in Japan; meanwhile, the best parts of my career centered around the web
Attended Sasquatch at the Gorge, WA #LiveMusic
Second summer in Seattle; completed Andrew Ng's Machine Learning course in June (notes)
Attended Bumbershoot in Seattle #LiveMusic
Graduated Stanford… with a job at Microsoft!
Attended first #LiveMusic festival: Summer Sonic in Osaka, Japan
Dove deep into Sequential Pattern Mining at a research facility internship in Japan
First summer in Seattle; during Google internship, read Effective C++ and became charmed by design patterns
Started coding in earnest for my senior year of high school; accepted into Stanford University, Class of 2013!
Habbo UK made me internet (from Maryland)
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