Duncan McKinnon
Machine Learning Engineer
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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SeniorDuncan Mckinnon is an AI Engineer in Seattle with a decade of experience spanning software engineering, data science, and ML platform development. He specializes in production AI applications, real-time feature serving, and LLM observability, bridging research and enterprise-scale deployment. At Arize AI, he focuses on monitoring and improving reliability of production ML/LLM systems, while previously leading latency-reduction and revenue-driving recommender work at Wayfair (over $40M/year). His career also includes data science consulting at Microsoft and building online ML and personalization systems at AT&T, grounded in a strong CS foundation from UW Bothell and Notre Dame. He has progressed from software engineer to ML engineer to field AI engineer, giving him a practical end-to-end perspective on delivering value across personalization, forecasting, and agentic AI. Based in Seattle, he combines hands-on engineering with leadership to translate AI innovations into robust, scalable production solutions.
10 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (57)
visual-studio-code10
electron10
microsoft10
langchain10
typescript10
vscode-extension10
editor10
datasets10
agents10
prompt-engineering10
openai10
llmops10
vscode10
anthropic10
visualstudio9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
duncankmckinnon/RecProjects
Aug 2017 - Nov 2022
Contributions:30 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 3 months
duncankmckinnon/PrimalUrges
Jul 2017 - Dec 2019
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
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