Justin Heaton
Software Engineer at LinkedIn
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJustin Heaton is a San Francisco–based software engineer with nine years of experience focusing on machine learning and computer vision, currently building production systems at LinkedIn. He has deep hands-on expertise training neural networks for image segmentation, instance segmentation, and object detection, and mentors others through code review roles in self-driving car and ML nanodegree programs. His background blends practical product delivery with applied research—he studied quantum machine learning and holds multiple Udacity nanodegrees—bringing a curiosity-driven, continuously learning mindset to rapidly evolving ML stacks. Before engineering, he founded a freelance virtual tour photography business, which gives him practical visual-domain intuition that informs model design and data collection decisions.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Nanodegree, Machine Learning Engineer, Nanodegree, Machine Learning Engineer at UdacityQuantum Machine Learning, Quantum Machine Learning at University of TorontoBachelor of Science (BS), Pre-Medicine/Pre-Medical Studies, Bachelor of Science (BS), Pre-Medicine/Pre-Medical Studies at Maharishi University of Management
Chinese, English
Github Skills (10)
computer-vision6
skip2
jupyter-notebook2
python2
semantic-segmentation1
notebook1
deep-learning1
semantic1
segmentation1
jupyter1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
JustinHeaton/Behavioral-Cloning
Dec 2016 - Feb 2018
Contributions:16 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
JustinHeaton/Advanced-Lane-Finding
Dec 2016 - Mar 2017
Applied computer vision techniques to identify lane lines, vehicle position and radius of curvature from a video stream from a forward-facing camera mounted on the front of a vehicle.
Contributions:20 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
computer-vision
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