Kristen Mcintyre
Senior Software Engineer at Apple
Fremont, California, United States
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Top SchoolKristen McIntyre is a Senior Software Engineer based in Fremont, CA with nearly three decades of engineering and leadership experience spanning roles from founder and CTO to senior staff engineer at Sun Microsystems and Apple. She brings deep systems and hardware-rooted expertise (BSEE, MIT) to modern software problems, pairing long-term industry perspective with hands-on engineering at scale. An active open-source contributor and core contributor to Yellowbrick, she focuses on making machine learning tooling more accessible through clearer documentation and practical examples. Kristen also serves the Python community as Chair of the Python Software Foundation's Poster Committee, reflecting a commitment to developer outreach and education beyond code. Notably, her career weaves entrepreneurial ventures and research-adjacent affiliations (Santa Fe Institute) into a pragmatic approach to building reliable, user-friendly software.
9 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Santa Fe InstituteBSEE, BSEE at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (4)
documentation10
sphinx9
matplotlib7
python6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
DistrictDataLabs/yellowbrick
Mar 2018 - Feb 2020
Visual analysis and diagnostic tools to facilitate machine learning model selection.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:33 commits, 51 PRs, 17 pushes in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Kristen's primary contributions focused on documentation updates within the Yellowbrick repository. They made numerous edits to improve clarity, fix typos, add import statements to code examples, and update the list of resources, including slide decks, presentations, and notebooks. The user also replaced deprecated methods in the code examples. These changes enhanced the usability and accessibility of the documentation for new users.
pythonvisual-analysisvisualizermodel-selectionmachine-learning
georgetown-analytics/classroom-occupancy
Apr 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:32 commits, 31 pushes in 3 months
pythonoccupancysciencedata-science
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