Andy Mackinlay
Staff Engineer at Xero
Greater Melbourne Area Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolAndy Mackinlay is a Staff Engineer with 13 years of experience blending rigorous NLP research (PhD) and pragmatic software engineering to deliver ML-driven products across healthcare and people analytics. He has led teams and technical initiatives at Culture Amp—transitioning from tech lead to staff ML engineer focused on model training, deployment, monitoring and MLOps—and now continues at Xero applying that expertise at scale. Comfortable spanning research-grade NLP and production systems, Andy has a track record building robust text-mining pipelines, search engines and information-extraction tools for biomedical and enterprise datasets. He prioritizes repeatability and CI/CD for ML, and is known for mentoring engineers to bridge the gap between experimental models and reliable, maintainable production services. An ongoing theme in his career is turning academic NLP techniques into operational value across commercial products.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Melbourne
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Github Skills (200)
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rest-api10
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big-data10
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Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
acl2018/acl2018-website
Oct 2016 - Jun 2018
Contributions:60 commits, 5 PRs, 190 pushes in 1 year 8 months
emnlp2020/emnlp2020-website
Dec 2019 - Nov 2020
Website for 2020 EMNLP conference
Contributions:18 reviews, 57 PRs, 210 pushes in 11 months
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