Robert Friel
Member Of Technical Staff at Transluce
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Friel is a machine learning engineer with nine years of experience who blends rigorous academic training (PhD-level applied math/atmosphere-ocean science) with hands-on product delivery in healthcare and ML startups. He has driven end-to-end ML systems—from contrastive and transfer-learning models to production pipelines and templating systems—demonstrating both research depth and pragmatic engineering across services and languages. At 98point6 he shipped clinician-facing features that improved efficiency and built automation to replace manual model training, and he continued to scale ML efforts at Galileo before joining Transluce. Comfortable stepping outside his comfort zone, he routinely implements integration and backend code in unfamiliar stacks to get features over the line. Based in Seattle, he pairs a researcher’s attention to model interpretability with a maker’s focus on operational reliability and user impact.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Atmosphere Ocean Science and Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Atmosphere Ocean Science and Mathematics at Courant Institute of Mathematical SciencesData Science Intensive, Data Science Intensive at Galvanize - Seattle, Pioneer SquareBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Physics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Physics at Reed College
Github Skills (72)
transformers10
language-model10
python10
deep-learning10
meter10
cython10
transformer10
nlp10
jax10
text-classification10
tensorflow10
natural-language-processing10
pytorch10
named-entity-recognition10
machine-learning10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
rfriel/piaget
May 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:60 commits, 1 PR, 43 pushes in 6 months
reinforcement-learningdeep-reinforcement-learningstagesdevelopmental-stagesreinforcement
rfriel/goodreads_social_rating_prediction
Nov 2016 - Oct 2017
Contributions:56 pushes, 4 branches in 10 months
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