James Dixon
Natural Language Processing Technical Lead
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolJames Dixon is a seasoned Natural Language Processing technical lead with 12+ years of experience building enterprise-grade ML and cloud-native systems, currently driving the NLP platform at CVS Health that powers voice, IVR, contract extraction, and legal text workflows. He blends hands-on engineering (C#, F#, Azure, LUIS, IBM Watson) with pragmatic architecture and DevOps—having implemented CI/CD pipelines, queue-based eventing, and Kanban practices that consistently deliver ahead of schedule and under budget. A practiced people leader and mentor, he evaluates and grows NLP and software talent while advocating for work-life balance and lean team processes. His background spans healthcare, international cloud deployments, and even bioinformatics volunteer work at UC Boulder, where he contributes algorithms for mass-spec protein discovery. Not obvious from his title: he started in contracting and finance roles and leverages that domain fluency to design high-ROI, auditable systems across complex regulated environments.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at American UniversityMaster of Public Health - MPH, Health/Health Care Administration/Management, Master of Public Health - MPH, Health/Health Care Administration/Management at University of MichiganBachelor of Arts - BA, Political Science and Economics, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Political Science and Economics at Hobart and William Smith Colleges
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Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
jamessdixon/Bioinformatics
Sep 2020 - Sep 2022
Contributions:17 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
ryanlayerlab/hypedsearch
May 2021 - Oct 2024
hybrid peptide searching tool
Contributions:29 PRs, 460 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 5 months
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