Summary
Joshua 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