Addison Klinke
Senior MLOps Engineer at Nextdoor
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAddison Klinke is a Senior MLOps Engineer based in Denver with eight years of machine learning experience focused on operationalizing models for cloud and edge deployments. He combines a mechanical engineering academic background (BS summa cum laude, MS with 3.89 GPA) with hands-on MLOps practice, emphasizing elegant, well-documented code and reproducible pipelines. His career spans startups and scale-stage companies—shipping production ML at Rekor, BallerTV, and Nextdoor—where he moved from practitioner roles into senior engineering with a focus on reliability and deployment ergonomics. Addison is comfortable bridging research and production, applying deep learning knowledge from formal coursework and Coursera specialization to practical systems engineering. Colleagues know him for making complex model workflows auditable and maintainable, and for pushing reproducibility best practices across teams. He brings both analytical rigor from engineering training and pragmatic product-minded execution to ML infrastructure challenges.
7 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Deep Learning Specialization, Deep Learning Specialization at CourseraMS, Mechanical Engineering, 3.89, MS, Mechanical Engineering, 3.89 at Case Western Reserve University
English, Spanish, German
Stackoverflow
1,126reputation
364kreached
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Github Skills (200)
model-management10
datasets10
backbone10
openalpr10
nvidia-docker10
labeling10
onnx10
darknet10
neural-network10
computer-vision10
data-science10
semantic-segmentation10
mobilenet10
image-augmentation10
keras10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
addisonklinke/pytorch-architectures
Jan 2020 - Feb 2021
PyTorch implementations of research paper model architectures
Contributions:23 commits, 1 PR, 20 pushes in 1 year
pytorcharchitecturesimplementationsdeep-learningpytorch-implementations
addisonklinke/investing
Feb 2019 - Feb 2022
Contributions:2 releases, 156 commits, 134 pushes in 3 years
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