Lissa Hyacinth
Engineering Manager at Mimica
Kinross, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolLissa Hyacinth is an Engineering Manager and platform-focused ML leader with nine years’ experience building production-ready Computer Vision, NLP, and classical ML systems across AWS and GCP. She has driven end-to-end ML/Ops at scale—from model design and training to monitoring and on-prem/SaaS deployment—most recently leading performance and bandwidth optimizations that improved client experience at Mimica. Comfortable in Rust, PyTorch (Detectron2), and Kubernetes, she’s shipped streaming model services, Graph ML productionisation, and a generic ML training/loading architecture. An active contributor to an open-source "Hacker's Machine Learning Engine," she has implemented core math ops and regression tooling, reflecting deep hands-on systems and model evaluation expertise. Based in Kinross, Scotland, Lissa pairs a pragmatic engineering mindset with product-facing experience running client projects and technical strategy.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Philosophy at University of Reading
English, German
Github Skills (7)
cuda10
machine-learning10
rnn-model10
rust10
n10
tensorflow9
machine-learning-models9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
fff-rs/juice
Dec 2019 - Apr 2021
The Hacker's Machine Learning Engine
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
ML EngineerContributions:7 reviews, 85 commits, 15 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Lissa's contributions primarily involve implementing and enhancing the machine learning capabilities of the "juice" engine. They added the Axpby<f32> trait and implemented it, indicating work on core mathematical operations. They also added a Mean Squared Error (MSE) layer with accompanying documentation, a regression example, and an MSE evaluator for regression problems, demonstrating contributions to model building and evaluation. The user also integrated the Mackey-Glass dataset.
cudacoasterpythonjuiceagnostic
lissahyacinth/pyre-check-action
Apr 2020 - Jan 2021
GitHub Action to check Python repos against Pyre
Contributions:5 releases, 14 commits, 18 PRs in 9 months
pythonpyre
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