Ryan Avery
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Wherobots
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolRyan Avery is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer based in Seattle with nine years of applied ML and geospatial experience, currently building production ML systems at Wherobots. He has led interdisciplinary teams and deployed real-time detectors and PyTorch models for conservation and ocean monitoring—work that includes integrating Microsoft’s MegaDetector into live camera-trap pipelines and developing ocean-feature detection for Skytruth Cerulean. Earlier research at UCSB and Clark Labs focused on mapping smallholder agriculture and improving cloud/shadow masking for high-resolution satellite imagery, bridging remote sensing science with scalable cloud ML pipelines. Comfortable in flat leadership structures, he pairs technical mentorship with public-facing communication, having authored technical blogs and presented results to stakeholders from nonprofits to government partners. A practical tinkerer as well as researcher, he combines production-first engineering with domain expertise in environmental and conservation applications.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BS in Environmental Sciences: Biological Sciences Concentration, GIS and Environmental Sciences, BS in Environmental Sciences: Biological Sciences Concentration, GIS and Environmental Sciences at UC Berkeley, Rausser College of Natural ResourcesBachelor's Degree, Environmental Sciences, Junior, Bachelor's Degree, Environmental Sciences, Junior at University of California, BerkeleyMaster of Arts - MA, Geography, Master of Arts - MA, Geography at UC Santa Barbara
Github Skills (200)
language-model10
gdal10
lasagne10
datasets10
visual-studio10
geography10
serve10
onnx10
face-recognition10
neural-network10
object-detection10
computer-vision10
nlp10
stable10
data-science10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
ecohydro/rhone-ecostress
Oct 2019 - Nov 2020
Contributions:31 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
developmentseed/segment-anything-services
Apr 2023 - Sep 2024
Contributions:10 reviews, 22 PRs, 45 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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