I work on improving the Open Web and democratizing publishing by using open source systems to build more engaging experiences.I focus on building data science infrastructure that scales: search, recommendation systems, and NLP for WordPress (both WordPress.com and Jetpack). I especially work a lot with Elasticsearch these days.I've worked on and deployed systems at literally every layer of the technology stack as both an Electrical Engineer and Software Engineer: - High speed circuit design- FPGA/ASIC development of multi-processor memory/cache systems and networking.- Driver development- REST APIs- Distributed Systems- Search/Natural Language Processing/Machine Learning- Web DevelopmentI try to contribute to both the WordPress and Elasticsearch open source communities.
Listed skills include Perl, Python, Machine Learning, C++, and 25 others.