Joshua Mathias
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Cantr
Tacoma, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJoshua Mathias is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in NLP, recommendation systems, and ML architecture for enterprise learning platforms. He blends hands-on model development and deployment with program and product leadership, having led cross-functional teams to deliver NLP-driven features from data pipelines to APIs. A founder and repeat startup operator, he now also runs Spiritual Data, applying rigorous, probabilistic thinking to spiritual research while pursuing a PhD in transpersonal psychology. Joshua’s background in computational linguistics and bilingual studies informs novel approaches to language-based ML, and he’s equally comfortable steering cloud budgets and organizing large, multilingual teams. Outside work he’s a barefoot long-distance runner, reflecting a mindset of continual challenge and disciplined experimentation.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computational Linguistics, Master's degree, Computational Linguistics at University of WashingtonComputer Science, Computer Science at Grand Rapids Community CollegeDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Psychology, with a Concentration in Integral Transpersonal Psychology , Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Psychology, with a Concentration in Integral Transpersonal Psychology at California Institute of Integral StudiesBachelor's degree, Computer Science and Spanish Translation, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Spanish Translation at Brigham Young University
English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian
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Github Skills (87)
nearest-neighbors10
clustering10
ltk10
similarity10
cosine-similarity10
localization9
similarity-search9
filesystem9
machine-learning9
nearest-neighbor-search9
translation9
semantics8
word2vec8
google-sheets-api8
google-sheets8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
SpiritualData/spiritual-chatbot
Jun 2023 - Nov 2024
Chatbot prototype that searches Spiritual Data using Pinecone.
Contributions:7 reviews, 16 PRs, 80 pushes in 1 year 5 months
JoshuaMathias/tensorflow-translation
Dec 2016 - Nov 2022
Implementing a customizable machine translation system in Tensorflow, using Tensorflow's open source code.
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 27 pushes in 6 years
nlpmachine-translationtranslationcustomizabletensorflow
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