Mikhail Klassen
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at The Ai Salon
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolMikhail Klassen is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer with 14 years of experience applying AI to real-world problems, currently building deep learning computer vision models for Planet’s daily global satellite imagery. A PhD in astrophysics and co-founder/former CTO of Paladin AI, he led development of a flight-training analytics platform (InstructIQ) that was acquired in 2023, demonstrating skill taking ML systems from prototype to production at scale. He contributes to open-source educational projects—most notably updates to the Mining the Social Web companion notebooks—and writes popular ML tutorials that have reached 100K+ readers. Based in Vancouver, he mentors data scientists, advises startups, and balances technical leadership with entrepreneurial ventures including a boutique vineyard, reflecting a blend of rigorous research, product intuition, and unconventional interests.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Astrophysics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Astrophysics at McMaster UniversityDEC Pure & Applied Science, DEC Pure & Applied Science at Marianopolis CollegeB.Sc. (Magna Cum Laude) Applied Physics, B.Sc. (Magna Cum Laude) Applied Physics at Columbia University
English, German, French, Spanish
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Github Skills (8)
jupyter-notebook10
python10
data-analysis9
webscraping7
github7
nltk7
apim7
api7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mikhailklassen/Mining-the-Social-Web-3rd-Edition
May 2018 - Aug 2019
The official online compendium for Mining the Social Web, 3rd Edition (O'Reilly, 2018)
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:89 commits, 6 PRs, 40 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Mikhail contributed significantly to the project by adding and modifying Jupyter notebooks, suggesting work on the front-end or data science code. The user's changes reflect work on the book/code by updating existing content and modifying links. Additionally, they refactored some of the resources and reorganized existing content.
miningcompendiumo-reillysocial-web
mikhailklassen/event_radar
Oct 2016 - Oct 2018
Contributions:3 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 2 years
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