James Clarke
Software Engineer at Polytomic
Medford, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolJames Clarke is an experienced software engineer and NLP expert with 19 years of experience translating research ideas into production-grade text analytics and machine learning systems. He has led R&D and engineering teams to deliver commercial NLP products—from entity linking and cross-document coreference to summarization systems informed by his EMNLP best-paper work on discourse-aware summarization. Comfortable as a full-stack developer, he builds end-to-end solutions spanning data pipelines, RESTful services, and front-end interfaces using Java, Python, Unix tools and web technologies. At companies from Basis Technology to Polytomic he has combined product ownership, hands-on implementation, and mentorship to move prototypes into scalable releases. An active contributor to open-source tooling (notably work on a Jekyll-inspired static site generator), he pairs deep academic grounding (PhD, Edinburgh) with practical engineering that bridges research and product needs. Based in Medford, MA, he brings a rare blend of formal machine learning expertise and pragmatic system-building experience.
19 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Informatics, PhD Informatics at The University of EdinburghMSc Advanced Computer Science, MSc Advanced Computer Science at The University of SheffieldBSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at University of Exeter
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Github Skills (13)
templater10
template-tags10
template-engine10
restructuredtext10
python10
django10
testing9
html9
css8
nltk6
chunking6
nlp6
javascript5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
hyde/hyde-old
Nov 2009 - Nov 2009
Static website generator inspired by Jekyll
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:14 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:James's commits primarily involve the implementation of features and functionalities related to the static website generator. Contributions include integrating restructured text processing with Django templates, defining new template tags for newline and syntax handling, and modifying existing template files. They also made changes to testing infrastructure, including testing methodologies and associated files to ensure the proper functionality of features implemented.
static-sitejekyllstatic-website-generatorwebsite-generatorstatic-site-generator
jc/jamesclarke
Jul 2016 - May 2022
Contributions:6 pushes in 5 years 11 months
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