Andy Mackinlay
Staff Engineer at Xero
Greater Melbourne Area Australia
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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.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Melbourne
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Github Skills (200)
apache-spark10
swagger10
hadoop10
big-data10
api10
credentials10
apache10
text-classification10
named-entity-recognition10
turkish10
programming-language10
python10
cython10
rest-api10
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
cultureamp/poetry-codeartifact-auth
Dec 2022 - Jun 2024
poetry-codeartifact-auth
Contributions:5 releases, 3 reviews, 16 PRs in 1 year 6 months
nodejsexpressauthcodeartifact
acl2018/acl2018-website
Oct 2016 - Jun 2018
Contributions:60 commits, 5 PRs, 190 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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