About

Y. Violet Guo is a highly skilled machine learning engineer and data scientist with over 3 years of relevant experience. She has worked on challenging projects that involved data in various forms, including audio, images, time series, healthcare data, and natural languages. Violet has a strong background in computer science, having completed a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from the Université de Montréal and a Bachelor of Applied Science degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Toronto. Violet is proficient in Python and has maintained modular Python code with test suites, including unit tests, integration, and coding style. She has also tackled challenging scenarios, such as datasets with few labels. In addition to her expertise in machine learning and data science, she is also skilled in web development and has built websites. Currently, Violet works as a Solution Engineer/Software Engineer at Instacart, where she applies her skills in ML, software engineering, and web development to solve complex problems. She has also worked as a Software Developer at GTV, where she revamped a simple search box with Elasticsearch backend and Python by adding NLP models such as N-gram, tokenizer, multilingual, and multi-field search. She also packaged Python applications with Docker and worked closely with DevOps for deployment. Violet's technical skills include ML, software engineering, web development, Python, test, search, data scientist, research scientist, integration, n-grams, NLP, Docker, Elastic Search, DevOps, backend, adversarial networks, Scikit, and Pandas. Her technical expertise and experience make her a valuable asset to any team.