About

Alex Merritt is an experienced and highly skilled independent Machine Learning Engineer and Data Scientist with over 10 years of experience in the industry. He has worked in various roles, from backend engineer to machine learning engineer and data scientist, and has experience with a wide range of technologies and programming languages, including C, Scala, Python, Java, and JavaScript. Alex has a strong background in machine learning and data science, and is capable of servicing the entire ML pipeline, from data ingestion to model learning to serving to continuous evaluation. He has worked on a variety of projects, including sentiment classification, streaming video recommendations, and image classification, and has experience with natural language processing, language embeddings, classification, regression, clustering, recommender systems, and deep learning. As an independent developer and consultant, Alex is a wearer of many hats, including Machine Learning Engineer, Data Scientist, and Author of ONNX-Scala & NDScala. He has a strong ethical compass and a history of engagement with open source communities. Alex is a polyglot, fluent in English, French, Dutch, and Spanish, and has experience with a variety of machine learning frameworks, including ONNX, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Spark ML, MXNet, and Vowpal Wabbit. He has worked for a number of companies, including Salesforce, PredictionIO, and ActionML, and has experience with integration and senior software engineering roles. Alex has a strong educational background, with a Master's degree in Artificial Intelligence: Learning Systems for Language, Knowledge and Speech from the University of Amsterdam and a Bachelor's degree in Cognitive Systems: Computational Intelligence and Design from the University of British Columbia. He also has experience with deep learning and computational phonetics from his internationally funded graduate work at the University of Amsterdam. Currently, Alex is a member of tribe ai, and is seeking remote contracts and collaborators. He has previously worked as an ML Engineer and Data Scientist consultant for independent and Konduit, and has a relevant experience of 12.79 years.