Mark Traquair
Software Engineer - AI at Uplimit
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Traquair is a software engineer specializing in AI with a decade of experience building and deploying machine learning systems across startups and product teams. He’s launched personalization features at Block’s Tidal team and worked on risk modeling for Square, bringing ML models from prototype to production with a backend-first mindset. Early roles in NLP, bioinformatics, and document image research reflect a practical blend of applied research and engineering—he’s comfortable with pipelines (Airflow), model deployment (Docker/APIs), and transformer-based NLP. Now at Uplimit as an early engineer, he focuses on backend and ML infrastructure, combining product intuition with scalable engineering. Based in Kitchener, Ontario, he pairs a formal data-science computer science background with a knack for translating research into reliable customer-facing features.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Honours Bachelor’s Degree with Data Science option Computer Science, Honours Bachelor’s Degree with Data Science option Computer Science at University of Ottawa
Github Skills (51)
reinforcement-learning9
pytorch9
python9
machine-learning9
natural-language-processing9
deep-learning9
optimization9
speech-recognition9
nlp9
ray8
transformer8
bert8
tensorflow8
java8
parallel8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
MarkProjectRepo/runelite
Jul 2020 - Jan 2025
Open source Old School RuneScape client
Contributions:8 pushes in 4 years 6 months
old-schoolrunescape-clientold-school-runescaperunescape
MarkProjectRepo/AirportWaits
May 2022 - May 2022
Contributions:269 pushes, 1 branch in 14 days
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