Matthew Altenburg
Data Scientist
Canberra, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Altenburg is a Data Scientist with 11 years' experience applying AI, computer vision and NLP in production across government, academia and startups from Canberra. He combines deep Python and PyTorch expertise with strong Linux and AWS engineering skills to modernize legacy codebases, reduce operating costs and deliver practical AI solutions. At the Attorney-General's Department he works on applied CV and NLP systems, while also facilitating technology teaching at ANU and consulting as a freelance CV engineer. Previously he founded and led SoapDrones, building aerospace-grade drone systems and briefing military and government stakeholders—an uncommon blend of research, applied engineering and operational leadership. He is open to public speaking on AI agents and translating complex models into auditable, real-world systems.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Chemistry, Bachelor’s Degree, Chemistry at University of Central Florida
Github Skills (31)
preprocessing10
donut10
autopilot9
reinforcement-learning9
pytorch9
python9
ocr9
docx9
pdf9
infrastructure9
nlp8
deep-learning8
natural-language-processing8
information-retrieval8
machine-learning8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
southern-cross-ai/BabyJoey
May 2024 - Jan 2025
Contributions:14 reviews, 22 PRs, 169 pushes in 7 months
matthewaltenburg/matthewaltenburg.me
Nov 2021 - Jul 2023
Contributions:38 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 8 months
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