Collen Roller
Software Engineer at SUNY College at Potsdam
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCollen Roller is a Software Engineer and technical lead at the Air Force Research Laboratory Information Directorate with 11 years of experience building production-ready systems and ML models, primarily in natural language processing and conversational AI. He combines deep Java and Python expertise with hands-on experience across mobile, cloud, and container platforms (iOS/Android, AWS, Docker) to move research prototypes into operational deployments. His background includes 3+ years developing diverse NLP models, 4+ years running Apache Solr for cloud search, and a track record of leading multi-scale team projects from research to production. Equally comfortable in C++/C#/Swift/Kotlin and web stacks like React and PHP, he focuses on dialogue state tracking, human–machine interaction, and application automation. Based in New York, he brings a cognitive computer science perspective to practical engineering challenges and describes himself as a passionate NLP engineer “changing the world one character at a time.”
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Computer Science at State University of New York College at Potsdam
Github Skills (62)
watson10
langchain10
bots10
google-assistant10
facebook10
llm10
voice10
openai10
dialogue-systems10
gateway10
llmops10
conversational-ai10
azure-openai10
vertex-ai10
dialogflow10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Collen-Roller/Rasa-Denerator
Aug 2019 - Sep 2020
A simple way of generating a domain.yml file for Rasa
Contributions:24 commits, 1 PR, 22 pushes in 1 year 1 month
pythondomainrasayml
Collen-Roller/collen-roller.github.io
Sep 2020 - Dec 2022
Contributions:1 release, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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