Elvijs Sarkans
Senior ML Engineer at Roku
South Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolElvijs Sarkans is a Senior ML Engineer with a decade of experience building production-grade machine learning and big data systems across healthcare, decision science, and consumer device domains. He combines a strong mathematical foundation (PhD, University of Bath) with hands-on expertise in probabilistic modelling, signal processing, deep learning and scalable data pipelines—work that has spanned startups and advanced research teams. At BIOS Health he led ML efforts on AI-driven neural interfaces, and he now contributes to forward-looking deep learning and computer vision work at Roku’s Advanced Development group. Comfortable moving models from research into cloud-native production, he has repeatedly tackled messy real-world data problems, designed orchestration and CI practices, and grown small engineering teams. Colleagues describe him as analytically rigorous yet product-focused, often finding simple, principled solutions to complex inference and systems challenges.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Mathematics, Bachelor's Degree Mathematics at University of CambridgeDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Mathematical Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Mathematical Sciences at University of Bath
English, Latvian, Russian
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Github Skills (70)
python10
etl10
automation10
mlops10
orchestration10
data-engineering10
scheduler10
monitor10
data-science10
workflow-engine10
apache10
machine-learning10
apache-airflow9
google-charts9
elt9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
elvijs/blockheads
Aug 2015 - Oct 2022
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 3 months
elvijs/personal_finance
Jun 2020 - Feb 2025
A little helper for standardising my monthly expenses from various accounts
Contributions:4 PRs, 24 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 8 months
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