Mike Kirkpatrick
Director Of AI ML at Koantek
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Kirkpatrick is a Director of AI/ML based in San Diego with eight years of hands-on experience building scalable machine learning and data engineering solutions and leading cross-functional teams. He has repeatedly advanced organizational AI maturity—standardizing GenAI and Azure stacks, pioneering MLOps practices, and growing technical talent at Hitachi Solutions and now at Koantek. His background spans full-lifecycle delivery from production recommendation systems and Spark streaming to institutional analytics and teaching data mining as an adjunct professor. Comfortable presenting complex AI topics to both technical and non-technical audiences, he blends statistical rigor from his MS degrees with practical engineering execution. Notably, he moved from institutional analytics and program evaluation into enterprise AI leadership, giving him a rare blend of applied research, product delivery, and people development experience.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Data Analytics, Master of Science - MS Data Analytics at National UniversityMaster of Science - MS Applied Psychology - Program Evaluation, Master of Science - MS Applied Psychology - Program Evaluation at San Diego State University
Github Skills (4)
sports-data9
scrape8
scraper7
python5
Github contributions (5)
Mike-Kirkpatrick/fantasy-football-analyses
Oct 2019 - Sep 2022
Contributions:37 commits, 12 PRs, 52 pushes in 2 years 11 months
pythonfootballscrapeanalysisleague
Contributions:26 commits, 26 pushes, 5 branches in 9 days
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