Alex Mirrington
Machine Learning Engineer at OPTIMAZE
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolAlex Mirrington is a Machine Learning Engineer based in Sydney with eight years of experience building scalable real-time data and ML systems that drive measurable product and revenue outcomes. At Rokt he led design of a company-wide feature platform and standardized model training, deployment, and observability—work that cut costs and improved reliability—while also researching and shipping novel deep learning architectures. Now at OPTIMAZE, he continues to focus on elastic systems that deliver customer value in production. His background includes hands-on full-stack and DevOps work from early roles and tutoring in advanced ML topics, which contributes to his pragmatic blend of research, engineering rigor, and developer-focused tooling. An active open-source contributor, he has improved type safety and developer experience in the popular Grommet React framework by migrating tests to TypeScript and extending component interfaces.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Sydney
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
javascript10
grommet10
typescript10
ui-design10
uid10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
react10
carbon-design-system9
system-design9
ax9
audio6
fft6
python6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
grommet/grommet
Feb 2021 - Oct 2022
a react-based framework that provides accessibility, modularity, responsiveness, and theming in a tidy package
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:22 reviews, 27 commits, 29 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily focused on enhancing the type definitions and extending the interfaces for various Grommet components. Their contributions included creating and updating extended props interfaces for components like `Heading`, `Text`, `Paragraph`, `Markdown`, `Table`, `Calendar`, `Button`, and `Box`, among others. They also migrated several component tests from JavaScript to TypeScript and updated test files to ensure the tests are valid in TS environment. This work suggests a strong emphasis on improving the type safety and developer experience within the Grommet framework.
accessibilityreactgrommetjavascriptux-framework
alexmirrington/typescript-client
Jul 2020 - Oct 2021
A web client boilerplate built on TypeScript, React and Webpack.
Contributions:1 release, 3 PRs, 46 pushes in 1 year 3 months
reactboilerplatetreeshakingweb-clientboilerplate-client
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