Asher Wright
Staff Machine Learning Engineer (L6) at Block
Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAsher Wright is a Staff Machine Learning Engineer with 11 years of experience building production ML, optimization, and full‑stack systems for high‑scale commerce and logistics. He has led technical strategy and ML infrastructure at Shopify, shipped routing and transit-time models, and now fights fraud on Cash App’s Identity ML team at Block. Comfortable across Python, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, and SQL, he pairs hands‑on engineering with operations research rigor from an MIT Master’s in Business Analytics. As a founder he also built a Rails storefront and Python routing service to run a food delivery business, showing a practical appetite for end‑to‑end product delivery. Colleagues rely on him for mentoring, rapid incident decisions, and translating complex business goals into auditable models and simulations.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Analytics Operations Research, Master of Business Analytics Operations Research at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMajor: Engineering, Major: Engineering at Dalhousie UniversityBachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Computer Engineering at McGill University
Github Skills (41)
redux10
javascript9
visualization9
webpack9
browser9
react9
fulfillment8
nextjs8
tower7
typescript7
compiler7
hybrid6
single-page6
static-site-generator6
turbo5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
rahulamlekar/TowerDefence
Mar 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:89 commits, 74 pushes, 5 branches in 21 days
towergame
AsherWright/elderly-grocery-delivery
Mar 2020 - Apr 2020
A web app that connects elderly to people who will go grocery shopping for them.
Contributions:48 PRs, 82 pushes, 25 branches in 14 days
reactgrocerygrocery-shoppingelderlyreactjs
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