Chris Bartley
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Canva
Western Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Bartley is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Canva with a PhD in machine learning and a decade of experience building production-grade AI systems that sit at the intersection of research and product. He blends eight years of project management expertise with deep technical chops, enabling him to frame clear MVPs, align cross-functional teams, and ship robust LLM-driven features like evaluation frameworks and document-understanding pipelines. Previously a Principal ML Engineer at Octant AI, he led design and deployment of core IP and has hands-on experience across time-series forecasting, causal inference, and generative models. He co-founded Commonality.me to explore AI applications for people with chronic illness, reflecting a user-centered focus beyond pure academia. Known for turning rigorous algorithms into scalable services, Chris is comfortable spanning algorithm design to productionisation while keeping experimentation pragmatic. Based in Western Australia, he often applies prior-knowledge integration techniques from his PhD to make "black-box" models more reliable in applied settings.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science - Machine Learning, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science - Machine Learning at The University of Western AustraliaBachelor of Science (BS) / Bachelor of Engineering (BE Hons), Information Technology / Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) / Bachelor of Engineering (BE Hons), Information Technology / Mechanical Engineering at UWAPerth Modern School
English
Github Skills (19)
python8
game-theory8
pattern-recognition7
statistical-inference7
probabilistic7
mcmc7
bayesian7
bayesian-inference7
modeling6
probabilistic-models6
classification6
probabilistic-programming6
random-forest5
machine-learning5
variational-inference5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
chriswbartley/monoensemble
Jan 2019 - Aug 2021
High Performance Monotone Boosting and Random Forest Classification
Contributions:4 commits, 2 PRs, 106 pushes in 2 years 6 months
forestpythonrandom-forestdata-sciencemachine-learning
chriswbartley/monoboost
Dec 2017 - Sep 2018
Contributions:120 pushes, 1 branch, 9 tags in 9 months
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