Expertise in machine learning, natural language, graph technologies, distributed systems, and related topics. Known as a "player/coach", with +40 years tech industry experience, ranging from Bell Labs to early-stage start-ups. Started coding in 1972; used email for work since 1981; software lead for neural network hardware accelerators 1989-96; guinea pig for AWS 2005-ff; led early teams identified as "Data Science" in 2009-ff.
Board member for Argilla.io; Advisor for KUNGFU.AI, DataSpartan.co.uk; Lead committer on pytextrank
and kglab
. Formerly: Director, Community Evangelism for Apache Spark at Databricks.
Werner Herzog is his spirit animal.