Mike Lawrence
Software Engineer, Machine Learning at Google
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Lawrence is a software engineer specializing in machine learning with eight years of experience building production ML systems across biotech and large-scale consumer products. Currently on YouTube Shorts recommendations at Google after contributing to AutoML/Vertex AI, he blends deep quantitative skills from a UC Berkeley physics background with pragmatic engineering for model safety, monitoring, and deployment. He has a track record of inventing novel statistical methods (patent pending) and automating model health checks to reduce deployment friction for teams and product managers. Comfortable leading small teams and mentoring students, he also tutors and has academic research experience in particle physics. Based in Palo Alto, he focuses on making complex ML workflows reliable and accessible—reducing friction for both engineers and end users.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Physics, Bachelor's degree Physics at University of California, Berkeley
German, English
Github Skills (42)
named-entity-recognition10
text-classification10
language-processing10
fairness-ml10
cython10
nlp10
turkish10
transformer-architecture10
arabic-nlp9
data-science9
artificial-intelligence9
entity-linking9
python9
industrial9
machine-learning9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Mlawrence95/wikipedia_entity_extraction_api
Feb 2020 - Oct 2021
Contributions:12 commits, 4 pushes in 1 year 7 months
Mlawrence95/OpenEducation-Project
Oct 2018 - Jul 2021
Contributions:44 commits, 35 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
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