Joshua Tanner
Principal Applied Scientist at Oracle
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJoshua Tanner is a Principal Applied Scientist in Seattle with 11 years of experience building production NLP systems and backend services for startups and Fortune 500 companies. He blends deep learning and classical ML to solve applied language tasks, from translation and grammatical error correction to information extraction, and has a track record of improving model performance substantially (e.g., +20 F1 and +10 BLEU gains). Equally comfortable in code and infrastructure, he’s shipped Django/AWS backends, high-throughput Java/Scala services, and mobile apps in Flutter, and now applies that full-stack lens to scale LLM-powered translation pipelines. A lifelong programmer with an MS in Computational Linguistics, he’s particularly focused on EdTech and tools for language learners, and has proven ability to collaborate with professional translators to close the gap between research and production.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computational Linguistics, Master of Science - MS Computational Linguistics at University of WashingtonB.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at The Evergreen State CollegeJapanese Studies, Japanese Studies at Hyogo University
English, Japanese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (116)
python10
entity-linking10
deep-learning10
cython10
audio10
ai10
nlp10
artificial-intelligence10
data-science10
text-classification10
natural-language-processing10
pypi10
pytorch10
named-entity-recognition10
machine-learning10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
octanove/shiba
Jun 2021 - Apr 2022
Pytorch implementation and pre-trained Japanese model for CANINE, the efficient character-level transformer.
Contributions:2 reviews, 4 commits, 4 PRs in 9 months
pytorchnatural-language-processingdeep-learningneural-network
Mindful/flashcard-builder
Jul 2015 - Feb 2021
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 7 months
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