Tony Hammack
Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Shipt
Greater Birmingham, Alabama Area United States
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Top SchoolTony Hammack is a Staff Machine Learning Engineer with 10 years of experience building real-time perception systems and production ML infrastructure from research to serving. Based in Greater Birmingham, he leads GenAI, OCR, and cost-optimization initiatives at Shipt, designing in-house LLM serving/training pipelines, RAG tooling, and practical computer vision solutions (DONUT, DocTR, vLLM, PyTorch). His background spans low-latency inference (WebRTC, Kotlin, C++), large-scale data platforms (Snowflake, Airflow, BigTable), and feature-store and model lifecycle tooling, making him equally fluent in experiment tracking and deployment. An active contributor to backend Python projects, he’s improved framework reliability and test coverage in open-source work while routinely applying integer programming and optimization techniques to drive measurable business savings. Unusually for an ML lead, he combines deep mathematical training (MS Mathematics) with hands-on engineering across Rust, PaddlePaddle, and production CI/CD, bridging research rigor and operational impact.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Mathematics, Master of Science - MS Mathematics at University of Alabama at BirminghamBachelor of Science - BS Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS Mathematics at University of Mobile
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Github Skills (10)
container-management10
python10
pytest9
exception-handling9
web-framework8
app-framework8
application-framework8
webpages7
web-content7
url-validation6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
MasoniteFramework/masonite
Sep 2018 - Mar 2019
The Modern And Developer Centric Python Web Framework. Be sure to read the documentation and join the Discord channel for questions: https://discord.gg/TwKeFahmPZ
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:38 commits, 2 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Tony primarily focused on improving the Masonite framework's core functionality and maintainability. Their contributions included bug fixes related to secret key handling and padding, enhancing exception handling to catch both `binascii.Error` and `ValueError`. They also introduced the `App.simple` method for simplified class binding within the container and added tests for improved code coverage. Further work included refactoring the RouteProvider, and adding new route verbs for more functionality.
pythonpython-webdiscordframeworkdiscord-channel
hammacktony/tonyhammack.com
Jun 2018 - Oct 2020
My personal site to show off tricks and gizmos.
Contributions:3 PRs, 184 pushes, 10 branches in 2 years 4 months
tricksgizmosnextjs
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