May Merkle-tan
Specialist Solutions Architect (Healthcare & Life Sciences) at Databricks
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolMay Merkle-tan is a Specialist Solutions Architect focused on Healthcare & Life Sciences with 11 years of experience bridging cognitive neuroimaging research and industry-scale AI/ML engineering. She leverages a PhD background in brain function to translate complex biomedical signals into production-ready data and MLOps solutions, driving measurable platform adoption and developer productivity at Databricks. Her work spans end-to-end applied AI—architecting clinical and discovery pipelines, accelerating dependency management (~20x) and contributing to industry solution repos like digital-pathology and mlops-stacks. Previously she led applied-science efforts at Comcast, turning neural-network research into operational tools and C-suite proofs-of-concept. Based in Denver, she combines academic rigor with pragmatic engineering to accelerate HLS innovation and occasionally surfaces product insights that lead to patentable improvements.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Cognitive Neuroimaging (Psychology), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Cognitive Neuroimaging (Psychology) at The University of EdinburghMaster of Science (MSc) Neural and Behavioural Sciences, Master of Science (MSc) Neural and Behavioural Sciences at University of TübingenInternational Baccalaureate Mathematics Physics Chemistry, International Baccalaureate Mathematics Physics Chemistry at UWC Atlantic CollegeDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Cognitive Neuroimaging (Psychology), Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Cognitive Neuroimaging (Psychology) at Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland
Github Skills (27)
ml-project10
databricks10
databricks-industry-solutions10
machine-learning9
segmentation9
mlops9
dicom9
medical-imaging9
ohif7
image-analysis7
deep-learning6
scraper6
instagram5
r-package4
instagram-api4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
hengrumay/hengrumay.github.io
Sep 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:185 pushes in 7 months
jekylljekyll-themehelveticatransparencyemphasis
hengrumay/recipes
Dec 2016 - Jan 2018
Contributions:58 commits, 56 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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