Michael Els
SVP AI Engineering at InMarket
Brookline, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Els is an SVP of AI Engineering who turns companies into profitable AI organizations, building models, teams, and infrastructure from zero while still shipping production code. With a Harvard PhD in ML and causal inference and 15+ years of experience, he has scaled AI at startups and enterprise products—most notably growing MaxPoint from a small team to a public company and introducing AI across three InMarket business lines with measurable ROI. He blends deep technical expertise (causal inference, RL, recommender systems, LLM orchestration, multi-agent pipelines) with operational rigor, having filed 20 patents and architected systems that run 100K QPS at sub-10ms latency. Equally comfortable reporting to CTOs/CEOs and writing code in Python/Spark on GCP, he focuses on shipping scalable, revenue-driving systems rather than novelty research. A practical innovator, he established company-wide engineering standards and a playbook for agent-driven development that balances LLM capabilities with deterministic guardrails.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
M.A., Economics, M.A., Economics at Duke UniversityHonours, Economics, Honours, Economics at Stellenbosch UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at Harvard University
English, Afrikaans
Github Skills (23)
prediction10
csv9
regression-models8
forecasting8
espn8
statsmodels8
statistics8
econometrics8
hypothesis-testing8
pandas7
python7
modeling7
database7
data-analysis6
sql6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
msdels/Presentations
Nov 2014 - Aug 2016
Contributions:6 commits, 1 push in 1 year 9 months
msdels/Random
Jun 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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