Alexander Whillas
Lead Machine Learning Engineer at Yabble
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Top SchoolAlexander Whillas is a Lead Machine Learning Engineer based in Auckland with 18 years of engineering experience and a Masters in AI focused on NLP and machine learning. He designs and ships production-grade AI pipelines—most recently building end-to-end LLM-driven qualitative analytics on ECS with Dagster and advanced clustering of sentence embeddings to power summarization and workflow augmentation. Previously he led AI infrastructure at scale, deploying inference fleets to edge devices and orchestrating GKE-based training and data pipelines while growing teams from solo contributor to manager of seven. His background spans front-end to systems engineering, giving him a pragmatic full-stack perspective on integrating models into products and retail systems. Equally at home prototyping experimental model interfaces as he is stabilizing ML infrastructure, he brings a startup mindset honed as a founder and CTO to enterprise problems. Outside work he explores Rust and game development, reflecting a wide technical curiosity beyond core NLP.
17 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, NLP, Machine Learning, Master Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, NLP, Machine Learning at University of New South WalesRandwick Boys HighschoolBachelors, Computing Science, Bachelors, Computing Science at University of Technology Sydney
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Github contributions (5)
awhillas/webgizmo
Apr 2015 - Jun 2019
Contributions:3 pushes in 4 years 2 months
awhillas/webgizmo2
Dec 2017 - Jul 2019
Contributions:27 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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