Michel Trottier-mcdonald
Lead Machine Learning Engineer at Salesforce
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolMichel Trottier-mcdonald is a Lead Machine Learning Engineer with 11 years of experience building production ML systems across research-driven and product-focused environments. He has applied physics-grade rigor—from a PhD and particle-physics research detecting rare Higgs signatures—to large-scale data problems at Twitter, Opendoor, and Salesforce, improving valuation and ranking models and reducing outliers. Comfortable moving models from prototype to production, he’s shipped image-search and computer-vision pipelines, automated tooling for outlier analysis, and instrumentation for high-stakes monitoring systems. Based in San Francisco, Michel blends deep statistical modeling and ML engineering with hands-on deployment experience on AWS and GPU infrastructure. A detail-oriented problem solver, he has a track record of turning noisy, real-world signals into robust features and measurable product impact.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Physics, 3.86, Bachelor's degree, Physics, 3.86 at Université du Québec à Trois-RivièresData Science, Data Science at Insight Data ScienceMaster's degree, Physics, 4.13/4.3, Master's degree, Physics, 4.13/4.3 at Simon Fraser University
French, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (51)
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spark9
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scala9
automl9
python8
game-development8
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
emitc2h/sivega
Dec 2014 - Feb 2016
Contributions:18 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
emitc2h/project-futbo
Aug 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:61 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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