Johan Verwey
Principal Machine Learning Engineer at Irreverent Labs
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJohan Verwey is a Principal Machine Learning Engineer with 13 years of experience blending game-engine craftsmanship and cutting‑edge ML research to ship production systems at scale. He has led ML and research engineering efforts across Microsoft (including Azure Bot Framework and Microsoft Research’s Machine Teaching Group), Xbox Game Studios, and now Irreverent Labs, helping product teams adopt AI while lowering barriers for non‑experts. His background in gameplay, simulation and haptics—from Ubisoft and Warner Bros. to surgical-training platforms—gives him a rare practical fluency in real‑time systems, optimization and developer tooling. Johan is a lifelong learner who introduced functional programming principles into research products to improve design and transferability across teams. Based in Vancouver, he pairs deep technical rigor with a creative bent toward game development and programming languages, making him adept at translating novel research into usable developer-facing AI features.
13 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc Computer Science, M.Sc Computer Science at University of Cape TownB.Sc Computer Science, B.Sc Computer Science at Stellenbosch University
Github Skills (138)
binding9
rust8
webdataset8
clion8
ffi8
interop8
intellij8
rust-wasm7
encoding7
game-development7
javascript7
visual-studio-extension7
api7
shell7
data-augmentation7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
rookboom/Elucidate
Sep 2012 - Sep 2016
Contributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 4 years
commentsvisual-studio-extensionmarkdownvisual-studio
rookboom/SharpShaders
Sep 2012 - Nov 2012
Contributions:53 commits, 1 issue in 2 months
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