Zachary Ernst
Lead Machine Learning Engineer at New Relic
Cairo, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZachary Ernst is a Lead Machine Learning Engineer with 10+ years of experience building data platforms and turning data science investments into measurable business value. He splits his time between hands-on engineering—designing resilient data infrastructure and anomaly-detection systems for cloud environments—and advising clients and leaders on organizational strategy to scale ML efforts. A former academic with a PhD in logic, he brings formal-methods rigor to practical problems, having architected production platforms that combine knowledge graphs, real-time ingestion, and Kubernetes at companies like Clearcover and New Relic. He founded a consultancy to help teams align processes and incremental delivery with long-term transformation, and has led data modernization and ETL programs at firms including Civis and QuantumBlack. Known for bridging research and production, he even generated his LinkedIn profile image via a deep CNN experiment, signaling a playful, experimental approach to ML tooling and storytelling.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Philosophy/Logic, PhD Philosophy/Logic at University of Wisconsin-MadisonMA Philosophy, MA Philosophy at Western Michigan University
Github Skills (19)
asciidoc10
newrelic10
backlog9
parser8
documentation8
kedro8
pipeline8
modular7
cypher7
machine-learning7
neo4j7
science7
python7
mlops5
data-science5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
zacernst/python_cypher
Feb 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:171 commits, 48 PRs, 141 pushes in 2 months
pythonpython-implementationneo4jparsercypher
zacernst/pycypher-nmetl
Oct 2024 - Mar 2025
Cypher for Python
Contributions:11 PRs, 163 pushes, 10 branches in 5 months
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