Martin Abeleda
Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Yelp
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolMartin Abeleda is a Staff Machine Learning Engineer with a decade of experience building production-grade ML systems and petabyte-scale backend architectures, currently leading ML efforts at Yelp in Vancouver. He blends hands-on proficiency in Python, Scala and Rust with deep experience in PyTorch/TensorFlow models (CNNs, transformers, XGBoost) and production deployment via FastAPI, gRPC, Kubernetes, CI/CD and MLOps tooling. Martin has a track record across startups and research-inflected teams—from Nearmap’s aerial imagery work to Borealis AI—bringing both early-stage product instincts and large-scale data processing know-how with Spark, Flink, Kafka and Iceberg. Comfortable owning the full stack of model development, data infrastructure and observability, he pairs rigorous engineering with a research background in mechatronics, which surfaces in his practical approach to complex systems and data-driven feature engineering.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Sydney
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (45)
static-analysis10
async10
validation10
proto10
rpc10
parsing10
linter10
rust10
schema10
grpc10
reinforcement-learning9
json-schema9
difference9
static-code-analysis9
python9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
martinabeleda/blackjack-tracker
Oct 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:27 commits, 3 PRs, 29 pushes in 13 days
pythoncomputer-visiondetectorpython3playing
martinabeleda/dotfiles
Nov 2022 - Mar 2026
Contributions:3 PRs, 117 pushes, 7 branches in 3 years 4 months
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