Xander May
Machine Learning Engineer Team Lead at Just Appraised
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolXander May is a Machine Learning Engineer and team lead based in Old Toronto with nine years of experience building and shipping NLP-driven data extraction systems. Currently leading a fully remote team of five at Just Appraised, he specializes in named entity recognition with transformers, document classification under extreme class imbalance, and production model pipelines that speed releases and enforce regression testing. His background spans research and industry co-ops where he optimized model inference, invented novel loss functions for sentiment tasks, and halved training time through data augmentation and automated pipelines. Comfortable coding across Python, Go, and JS, Xander pairs hands-on engineering with practical leadership—having organized large student programs and scaled solutions for dozens of proprietary customer datasets. An attention to production robustness and edge-class performance sets him apart from typical ML practitioners.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at Carleton UniversityCASI Certification, Winter Sports, CASI Certification, Winter Sports at Canadian Ascociation Of Snowboard InstructorsBell Highschool
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Github Skills (110)
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
xmaayy/xmaayy.github.io
Jan 2018 - Aug 2021
My personal website
Contributions:11 PRs, 53 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 7 months
reactnextjs
xmaayy/Authy
Aug 2021 - Sep 2021
A rust authentication server
Contributions:28 commits, 1 PR, 13 pushes in 1 month
rustauthentication-serverauthenticationrust-lang
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