About

Keenan Venuti is a passionate Machine Learning Engineer with over 7 years of relevant experience. He is a certified TensorFlow Developer, Google Cloud Data Engineer, Azure, AWS, Stanford ML, and Neo4j Professional. Keenan is passionate about Automation, AI, Robotics, Cloud Technology, and Machine Learning from both a technical and philosophical perspective. He has a Bachelor's degree in Psychology & Computer Science from Harvard University and a Master of Science in Data Science, Artificial Intelligence Specialization from Northwestern University. Keenan is currently working as a Lead Machine Learning Engineer at Bark. He is the owner of Bark's customer-facing Add to Box recommender system and several estimated delivery date models. Keenan is currently developing an internal ML platform equipped with a feature store, automated training pipelines with hyperparameter tuning, and a microservices-based inference layer with scalable endpoints and prediction logging. The platform is implemented with GCP's core data engineering and machine learning products. Keenan is also the engineering lead in migrating Bark's production ML models from disparate deployments to their standardized internal ML platform. In the past, Keenan has worked as a Data Scientist and Machine Learning Engineer for Accenture, where he was the lead ML Engineer for an NLU Question-Answering search capability for +30m life sciences abstract database. He has also assisted in the development of a massive (multi-million edges/nodes) life sciences research Knowledge Graph hosted on Google Cloud Platform. Keenan has also worked for Adobe as a Data Analyst, where he developed automated ETL workflows in Alteryx and Snowflake to clean, aggregate, dissect, and publish product usage and sales data to Tableau. Keenan has a strong tech stack that includes ML, Data Scientist, Data Engineering, GCP, AWS, Research Scientist, Neo4j, AI, Hyperparameter, NLU, Tensorflow, Microservices, Azure, ETL, NLP, Search, Snowflake, SQL, Scikit, test, product manager, Python, Javascript, Integration, and Web. In his spare time, Keenan is an e-learning consumer, advocative philosopher, preachy evolutionist, pickup basketball MVP, and rap enthusiast. To learn more about Keenan, his projects, and his papers, visit keenanvenuti.com.