David Tan
ML Engineering Manager at REA Group
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Tan is an ML engineering manager with a decade of experience building and leading machine learning teams across Australia’s top tech and retail organisations, currently at REA Group. He is the lead author of Effective Machine Learning Teams, blending practical team-building guidance with hands-on engineering leadership developed at ThoughtWorks, Xero and Woolworths. David’s background spans policy and product — from strategic trade negotiations and CRM delivery at Singapore’s Ministry of Trade and Industry to teaching full‑stack development — giving him a rare ability to translate complex business problems into production ML systems. Known for scaling cross-functional teams and operationalising models in enterprise environments, he combines a research-informed mindset with pragmatic delivery.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Political Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Political Science at The George Washington UniversityBachelor of Science (BSc), Political Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Political Science at National University of Singapore
English, javascript, ruby, python
Github Skills (99)
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reproducible-research9
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
davified/snake-game
Jun 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:28 commits, 2 PRs, 33 pushes in 9 days
snakejavascriptnokiasnake-gamerecreating
davified/docker-python-template
Apr 2020 - Sep 2022
Contributions:2 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
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