Alex Shepard
Software Developer at Apple
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Shepard is a versatile software developer with 13+ years building production-grade systems across iOS, backend, and machine learning, currently developing at Apple after a decade leading ML and mobile efforts at iNaturalist. He architected and scaled iNaturalist’s computer vision pipeline to handle 60M+ images and 100K+ classes with monthly retrains on commodity hardware, and built the CoreML inference layer and React Native bridge for their mobile apps. Early career infrastructure and systems work at Getty Images and Eye-Fi gave him deep operational chops—deploying colo/network stacks, monitoring platforms, and award-winning mobile apps—while an MFA in printmaking fuels a sustained creative practice and experimental hardware projects. Alex uniquely blends production ML engineering with hands-on mobile development and an artist’s sensibility for design and experimentation, and he consults for artists and non-profits through Meatfreezer Apps.
13 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) History, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) History at University of WashingtonMaster of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) Printmaking, Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) Printmaking at San Francisco Art Institute
English, Japanese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (73)
rails-app10
ios10
apple-silicon9
statsmodels9
mobile-application9
camera9
huggingface9
react-native-vision-camera9
julia8
statistics8
javascript8
nodejs-api8
survivejs8
mxnet8
dataflow8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
alexshepard/spimr
May 2013 - Jul 2014
Contributions:333 commits in 1 year 1 month
inaturalist/inatGeoModelTraining
Oct 2023 - Sep 2025
Contributions:3 PRs, 29 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 11 months
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