Matthew Drago
Data Scientist
Malta
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Drago is a data scientist with 9 years of industry experience and 4+ years focused on building real-time ML pipelines deployed in regulated environments. He has delivered recommendation systems, behavioural analytics, and semantic search across gaming and affiliate sectors, including a recommender that improved player engagement by 20%. Comfortable with classical ML, deep learning, and agentic AI, he prioritizes interpretable models and responsible AI while partnering closely with product and engineering teams to turn insights into measurable business impact. His background spans bioinformatics research and teaching, reflecting a knack for translating academic rigor into production-ready solutions. Based in Malta, he maintains an active technical presence through his GitHub and blog, signaling continual learning and practical open work.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MSc Artificial Intelligence, Master of Science - MSc Artificial Intelligence at University of St AndrewsB.Sc (IT) Software Development, B.Sc (IT) Software Development at University of Malta
Github Skills (28)
stream10
faust10
redis9
kafka9
streaming9
ray8
python8
distributed-systems8
data-stream8
streaming-data8
snakemake7
asyncio7
data-pipeline7
stream-processing7
d3js5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Adamouization/Corona-Virus-Insights-Dashboard
Mar 2020 - May 2020
Coronavirus dashboard visualisations entirely designed in D3.JS
Contributions:41 commits in 1 month
visualizationreactd3v5d3-jsnodejs
mdrago98/BiogeMtBootcampTask
Dec 2023 - Dec 2023
Bootcamp task shared with Target MI
Contributions:5 reviews, 18 PRs, 21 pushes in 2 days
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