Chris Messier
Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Search at DICK'S Sporting Goods
Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Messier is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in search and recommendation systems, with a decade of experience turning complex data into scalable, production-ready AI solutions. He blends deep learning, NLP, and recommender expertise with strong engineering practices (Python, TensorFlow, PySpark, Docker, AWS/GCP) to build fast, reliable tools that help decision makers act at scale. His background spans startups and enterprise—Clarifai, MissionWired, and DICK’S Sporting Goods—where he shipped applied models for vision, retrieval, and user-facing search. Trained in computational economics and experimental design, he brings a rare mix of decision theory and mechanism-design thinking to ML problems, which informs robust evaluation and product-aligned modeling. Known for bridging research and engineering, he focuses on practical, data-driven solutions rather than theoretical novelty.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate, Data Science, Certificate, Data Science at General AssemblyBachelor of Arts - BA, International Relations, Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts - BA, International Relations, Philosophy at Virginia Commonwealth UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (On Hold), Economics, Doctor of Philosophy (On Hold), Economics at George Mason University
Github Skills (16)
neural-network10
machine-learning10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
deep-neural-networks10
python10
data-science10
ml10
reinforcement-learning9
gaussian8
pytorch8
gaussian-processes7
stochastic-processes7
modular5
gpu-acceleration3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
messiest/explor
Oct 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:18 commits, 10 pushes in 4 months
messiest/mario.ai
Nov 2017 - Dec 2018
Contributions:262 commits, 50 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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