Alex Contryman
Staff Machine Learning Engineer at General Motors
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Contryman is a Staff Machine Learning Engineer in San Francisco with 12 years of experience building production ML and deep learning products, currently leading ML efforts at Cruise after senior engineering roles at Lyft. He combines a rare blend of academic rigor—PhD and MS in Applied Physics from Stanford and a BS in Engineering Physics from Cornell—with hands-on software engineering, contributing to open-source tooling such as refactoring the unofficial Coinbase Pro Python client for improved maintainability. His background in experimental condensed-matter research resulted in multiple highly cited publications, reflecting deep expertise in measurement, data analysis, and reproducible science that he brings to ML system design. Alex has taught software engineering at the university level and has a track record of turning complex research-grade methods into reliable, production-ready systems. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who prioritizes code quality and long-term maintainability while shipping impactful ML products.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Engineering Physics, B.S., Engineering Physics at Cornell UniversityPh.D., Applied Physics, Ph.D., Applied Physics at Stanford University
Github Skills (7)
refactoring10
api10
python10
apidoc10
refactor10
common-library8
c-library8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
danpaquin/coinbasepro-python
Jun 2017 - Nov 2017
The unofficial Python client for the Coinbase Pro API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 6 PRs, 71 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Alex's contributions primarily focused on cleaning up class initialization and inheritance across several files within the `gdax` directory, which suggests involvement in the core functionality of the unofficial Python client. These changes involved refactoring code and standardizing formatting. They also fixed file names to match lowercase. These changes indicate a focus on code quality, maintainability, and adherence to coding standards.
pythonpython-clientwebsocket-clientcoinbaseexchange
acontry/coinbasepro
Jun 2018 - Jul 2022
DEPRECATED A Python API for Coinbase Pro
Contributions:5 releases, 2 reviews, 77 commits in 4 years 1 month
pythonpython-clientcoinbaseprocoinbasepro-apicoinbase-pro
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