Connor Brinton
Senior II Machine Learning Engineer at Anomalo
Holly Springs, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolConnor Brinton is a Senior II Machine Learning Engineer with 10 years of experience building production ML systems that prioritize business impact, developer experience, and low-level optimization. He has led teams and projects across NLP, vision-language, and sensitive-data detection—delivering large gains like tripling inference throughput, cutting latency 21x, and improving detector recall while reducing false discovery rates. Comfortable from cloud networking and ICMP debugging to hyperparameter tuning with Optuna, he combines systems-level engineering with deep learning rigor and a penchant for performance engineering. Connor has driven platform reliability and scaling at startups and enterprise teams, standardized data workflows and CI practices, and contributed performance improvements to the mdtraj open-source library. Fluent in Portuguese from his missionary service, he pairs strong cross-cultural communication with hands-on technical leadership.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and TechnologyMaster's degree Biomedical Informatics, Master's degree Biomedical Informatics at Stanford University School of MedicineBachelor’s Degree Computer Science: Artificial Intelligence, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science: Artificial Intelligence at Stanford University
English, Portuguese, Spanish
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Github Skills (19)
python10
molecular-simulation10
mdm10
molecular-dynamics-simulation10
mdt10
performance-optimization10
nonlinear-dynamics10
algorithms9
numpy9
computational-chemistry8
testing7
logcat6
data-structures6
gettext6
android6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
mdtraj/mdtraj
Jul 2016 - Aug 2016
An open library for the analysis of molecular dynamics trajectories
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 2 PRs, 9 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Connor primarily contributed to the development of the `mdtraj` library, focusing on performance optimization and feature enhancement of hydrogen bond analysis functionalities. They refactored and optimized existing code, implemented new features such as the `sidechain_only` option, and addressed bugs within the hydrogen bond analysis algorithms. The user also contributed to improving the loading functionality of the library by incorporating the `md.join` function.
pythonmdtrajmolecular-dynamicspdbpdb-files
connorbrinton/spaCy
Jul 2021 - Sep 2024
💫 Industrial-strength Natural Language Processing (NLP) with Python and Cython
Contributions:30 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 2 months
nlppythonlanguage-processingindustrialcorenlp
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