Brennan Mcconnell
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Apple
United States
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Top SchoolBrennan Mcconnell is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Apple with 11 years of experience blending rigorous academic training and hands-on research to extract insights from large-scale data. He holds a summa cum laude M.S./B.S. in Computer Science (minor in Economics) and wrote a master's thesis on integrating calibration into neural network loss functions, reflecting a strong grounding in probabilistic ML and model reliability. At Apple he focuses on novel evaluation of vast datasets, and his background includes internships and research roles at Google and Qualcomm as well as teaching OS and advanced programming at CU Boulder. He has explored GANs and reinforcement learning in side projects and has a knack for applying statistical thinking and systems-level engineering to bridge research ideas into production-feasible solutions. An early contributor to tooling and data-collection efforts during his research apprenticeship, he combines reproducible engineering practices with a curiosity-driven approach to uncover subtle signals in complex datasets.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Minor in Economics, 3.95, Summa Cum Laude, Master of Science - MS, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Minor in Economics, 3.95, Summa Cum Laude at University of Colorado BoulderGeneral Education, 4.1, General Education, 4.1 at Poudre High School
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Github Skills (8)
genetic-algorithm10
neural-network6
react4
javascript3
typescript3
freemarker2
appengine2
gradle1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Brennan-M/FlappyBird_NEAT_GeneticAlgorithm
Nov 2016 - Feb 2018
Implementation of a neural network with a genetic algorithm to solve Ms. PacMan.
Contributions:38 commits, 31 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 3 months
genetic-algorithmneural-network
Brennan-M/ExpenShare
Sep 2014 - Dec 2014
Contributions:53 commits, 2 issues in 3 months
reactexpensesjavascriptsharingtypescript
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