Perez Ogayo
Software Engineer at Google
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolPerez Ogayo is a Machine Learning Engineer with 8 years of software experience and 3+ years focused on building and deploying NLP systems, currently at Intuit after roles at Oracle and CMU's Language Technologies Institute. He specializes in low-resource and multilingual NLP, with hands-on research in machine translation and speech, and contributes to community-driven projects like Masakhane. Perez pairs academic rigor from a Carnegie Mellon master's with practical engineering—shipping production services and refining technical documentation for open-source projects such as Augur. Early initiatives in education and product clubs reveal a talent for organizing technical communities and turning research into usable tools.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Machine Learning Engineer with Microsoft Azure Nanodegree Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning Engineer with Microsoft Azure Nanodegree Artificial Intelligence at UdacityCertificate Full stack development, Certificate Full stack development at OpenClassroomsStarehe Girl's CentreBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at The African Leadership UniversityMaster's degree Language Technologies, Master's degree Language Technologies at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Kiswahili, dholuo
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Github Skills (5)
schema10
documentation10
python-lib5
open-source4
data-collection4
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
augurlabs/augur
Mar 2020 - Mar 2020
When Augur reached a wall we made Aveloxis: Reliably collecting OSS Metrics Data. 40,000 repositories fully collected in 3 days is good, right?
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:9 commits, 2 PRs, 10 comments in 2 days
Contributions summary:Perez primarily focused on updating and refining the project's documentation. Their commits involved correcting broken links within the documentation, including fixing a broken link to the unified data model. The user also added and updated the documentation of the data model, including the schema overview and the data sources. Additionally, they shortened the wording on the development guide.
unixpythonweb-servicedata-collectionmonitoring
neulab/newlang-tech
Oct 2021 - Jan 2022
A guide to building language technology in new languages.
Contributions:2 reviews, 20 commits, 2 PRs in 3 months
programming-languagelanguageslanguage-technology
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