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.
9 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 (19)
redis10
kafka9
distributed-systems9
stream-processing8
python8
asyncio8
snakemake6
d3js5
nodejs5
coreference-resolution5
natural-language-processing3
nlp3
pytorch3
visualizations3
machine-learning3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mdrago98/ontosemantics
Jan 2020 - Oct 2025
Contributions:10 pushes in 5 years 9 months
Adamouization/Corona-Virus-Insights-Dashboard
Mar 2020 - May 2020
Coronavirus dashboard visualisations entirely designed in D3.JS
Contributions:41 commits in 1 month
visualizationsd3d3-visualizationd3jsd3v5
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