Jacques Esterhuizen
Applied Scientist II at Amazon
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJacques Esterhuizen is an Applied Scientist II with eight years of experience applying machine learning to real-world problems, currently building large language model solutions for AWS Support and sustainability-focused carbon measurement. He holds a PhD and MSE in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan, where his research accelerated the design and discovery of heterogeneous catalysts using ML—a foundation that informs his data-driven approach to AI systems. At Amazon he has contributed to customer service agents and RL post-training for consumer-facing shopping agents, blending production ML, reinforcement learning, and research rigor. Based in Ann Arbor, Jacques brings a rare combination of deep scientific training and hands-on engineering experience, with a track record of translating academic breakthroughs into scalable, impact-driven products.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Chemical Engineering, 3.82 GPA, Bachelor of Science - BS, Chemical Engineering, 3.82 GPA at University of Southern CaliforniaPhD, Chemical Engineering, 3.97 GPA, PhD, Chemical Engineering, 3.97 GPA at University of Michigan
English, Afrikaans, Spanish
Github Skills (13)
interpretable-machine-learning9
xai8
iml8
transparency8
blackbox8
naive-bayes7
lime7
differential-privacy7
machine-learning6
artificial-intelligence6
scikit-learn5
ai4
gradient-boosting3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jesterhui/interpretable_ml_description_chemisorption_alloys
Oct 2019 - Jan 2022
Contributions:12 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 2 years 2 months
jesterhui/pca_electronic_structure_descriptors
Feb 2021 - Jan 2022
Contributions:14 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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