Craig Hagerman
Engineering Manager, AI & ML at Loblaw Digital
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolCraig Hagerman is an engineering manager specializing in AI and ML with 10 years of hands-on and leadership experience building production-grade NLP and recommendation systems from 0-to-1. He has driven measurable business impact—improving retention, increasing revenue, cutting latency and recurring costs, and reducing cloud spend by architecting custom LLM infrastructure and efficient inference pipelines. Comfortable shifting between research and delivery, he has led cross-functional AI roadmaps, built and scaled teams, and consulted for governments and enterprises on risk, compliance and strategy. His background in applied linguistics and teaching informs a pragmatic approach to NLP problems, turning linguistic insights into robust, deployable models. Based in Toronto, he blends deep technical fluency (transformers, PyTorch, vLLM, Sagemaker) with product-minded execution and a knack for translating R&D into customer-facing value.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Computer Science, Master of Science Computer Science at University of New England (AU)Master of Science (Professional Masters) Applied Computing, Master of Science (Professional Masters) Applied Computing at University of TorontoB.A. Philosophy / Literature, B.A. Philosophy / Literature at Mount Allison UniversityHigh School, High School at Warwick Academy
English, Japanese
Stackoverflow
383reputation
25kreached
9answers
2questions
Github Skills (24)
twitter-api9
prediction9
espn8
twitter8
hypothesis-testing7
statistics7
forecasting7
regression-models7
python7
logic6
modeling6
statsmodels6
clip6
multimodal6
econometrics6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
craighagerman/Twitterator
Nov 2015 - Apr 2021
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 5 months
craighagerman/craighagerman.github.io
Oct 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:9 commits, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 21 days
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