Jason Taylor
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Helm.ai
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Taylor is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer with a decade of experience building production-grade computer vision and ML systems for startups and safety-critical products. He has led teams and R&D across domains including automated stop-arm enforcement, biometric liveness detection, and self-driving perception, and is fluent in Python, TensorFlow and PyTorch. Jason combines research rigor—an incomplete PhD in machine learning and a strong academic background in electrical engineering—with practical engineering, shipping edge deployments, pruning tools that cut model size/runtime by over 50%, and cross-camera re-identification pipelines. Based in Old Toronto, he mentors engineers, drives product roadmaps, and tends to focus on robustness under noisy labels and real-world constraints rather than just benchmark gains.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master of Science (MSc) Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of ManitobaPhD - incomplete Machine Learning, PhD - incomplete Machine Learning at McGill University
Github Skills (39)
python10
data-science10
machine-learning10
ml10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
deep-neural-networks10
neural-network10
photo-upload10
driver7
photo7
instagram-api7
api7
research-and-development6
arxiv6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jrbtaylor/conditional-pixelcnn
Jan 2018 - Jan 2018
Contributions:66 commits, 9 pushes in 22 days
jrbtaylor/visual-attention
Feb 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:12 commits, 4 pushes in 5 months
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