<p>Machine Learning Consultant, focusing on image recognition &amp; NLP.</p>

<p>I specialize in developing machine learning MVPs for small and medium sized companies. </p>

<p>I am currently accepting new projects; if you are working on a project, and need help, feel free to reach out; I love talking to people about projects they're working on, even if they don't need help.</p>

<p>Projects of note:</p>

<ul>
<li>Developed an international trade model for the Government of Alberta that allowed them to make informed trade negotiations. Currently in use. Trained a random forest on 120 GB of data using sklearn.</li>
<li>Developed a ML SaaS app from start to end that processed bug report text from Github and classified pairs of bug reports as duplicates or not. Heavy NLP work.</li>
</ul>

<p>My go-to stack is Python + Numpy/SciPy/Sklearn/Pandas + PyTorch on AWS for research projects, and Tensorflow for production systems, but I’ve worked with a variety of tools, including GCP and Azure. Flask for projects that need web frameworks. </p>

<p>I have significant experience mentoring teams without ML experience and bringing them to a spot where they can maintain &amp; build on existing systems. </p>

<p>I focus on image recognition and NLP problems, often involving search. I have several published papers using NLP in an applied setting, which you can see on finbarr.ca/dedup. I am also available for remote FT opportunities. Please reach out to me, even if you’re not interested in hiring me. I love talking to people about machine learning and helping mentor people.</p>

<p>Education: BSc Honors Math, University of Alberta, MSc Econometrics &amp; Mathematical Economics, London School of Economics.</p>

<p>Experience: Image processing, deep learning (conv nets, recurrent nets, variational autoencoders, etc.), statistics, numerical optimization and simulation, etc..</p>

<p>Technologies: Python, PyTorch, Tensorflow, Keras, Flask, Bash, Linux, Postgresql, MySQL, HTML, CSS, Git.</p>

<p>Github: <a href="https://github.com/finbarrtimbers" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/finbarrtimbers</a></p>

<p>Email: finbarrtimbers a-t gmail dot com</p>

<p>Site: <a href="https://finbarr.ca" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://finbarr.ca</a></p>

fbt