Evan Dempsey
Chief Technology Officer at Kolega.AI
Dublin, Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolEvan Dempsey is a CTO and seasoned software leader with 12 years of experience building scalable SaaS and data systems, currently steering technical strategy and engineering at Kolega.AI from Dublin. He combines a rigorous MSc in Computer Science with a humanities background in philosophy and English, which informs a curiosity-driven approach to product and architecture at the intersection of AI and developer tooling. As founder of Recommendify, he shipped one of the first Shopify recommender apps and sustained it for over a decade, translating personalization research into real merchant revenue. Evan’s hands-on pedigree spans ETL and modern data stacks, serverless full-stack work, and robust testing practices—evidenced by his contributions improving test infrastructure for the popular TextBlob NLP library. Pragmatic and multidisciplinary, he excels at turning complex domain ideas into maintainable, production-grade systems while mentoring teams to adopt engineering best practices.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Computer Science, MSc Computer Science at University College Dublin
Github Skills (8)
nlp10
textblob10
python10
natural-language-processing10
testing10
unit-testing9
nltk9
pytest8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
sloria/TextBlob
Jun 2014 - Jun 2014
Simple, Pythonic, text processing--Sentiment analysis, part-of-speech tagging, noun phrase extraction, translation, and more.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:5 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Evan primarily contributed to improving the testing infrastructure of the `textblob` library. Their commits focused on fixing failing assertions in existing translation tests, ensuring more robust and accurate results. They also addressed issues with character encoding and unicode escapes in the translation output. Furthermore, the user refactored existing test code for better readability and maintainability.
part-of-speechextractionpythontranslationtext-processing
evandempsey/porter2-stemmer
Aug 2013 - Apr 2016
Contributions:2 releases, 23 commits, 24 pushes in 2 years 8 months
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