Joseph Friedman
New York Metro, United States
Summary
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SeniorJoseph Friedman is a STEM teacher and software engineer with 11 years of experience blending classroom instruction, retail leadership, and production software development to solve human-centered problems with AI and machine learning. Based in the New York City area, he has built and led engineering efforts at startups and at Google, focusing on tools and AI-enhanced software that amplify team productivity and automate business growth. He’s taught computer science from elementary through AP levels, guiding students to ship real apps while adapting lessons for learners with mild to moderate disabilities. Joseph contributes to open-source documentation for major projects like TensorFlow, improving tutorials and clarity for practitioners. Comfortable shifting between pedagogy and production code, he pairs hands-on implementation skills with an educator’s knack for clear communication and inclusive design. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex ML concepts into practical, deployable solutions that prioritize people as much as performance.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (8)
user-manual10
learn-ruby-on-rails10
basics10
documentation10
tensorflow9
deep-learning6
machine-learning6
deeplearning-ai6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
tensorflow/docs
Jul 2018 - May 2019
TensorFlow documentation
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:11 commits, 8 PRs, 9 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Joseph primarily contributed to the project by modifying documentation files. They updated tutorial links, corrected a typo, and fixed instructions in a tutorial related to image captioning. The changes focused on improving clarity, updating references, and ensuring the documentation accurately reflects the project's state. This work involved updating links to different versions of the tutorials and correcting minor errors in the text.
tensorflowtensorflow-tutorialsmachine-learningdeep-learningdeep-neural-networks
DecentGradient/docs
Mar 2019 - May 2019
TensorFlow documentation
Contributions:15 pushes, 3 branches in 2 months
tensorflow
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