Zachary Warnes
Machine Learning Engineer at Fireweed AI
Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolZachary Warnes is a Machine Learning Engineer with 11 years of experience and an MSc in Data Science, building production-first AI systems that bridge raw data, scalable pipelines, and LLM-driven retrieval. He has shipped cloud-native ML infrastructure across Azure, AWS, and GCP, engineered event-driven data platforms processing terabytes of geospatial and IoT sensor data, and deployed RAG and vector-search systems used by hundreds of scientists and engineers. His background spans healthcare, geoscience, and low-resource NLP research—where he fine-tuned open-source LLMs and established evaluation frameworks for bias and cultural appropriateness. Known for combining software engineering rigor with deep ML expertise, Zach prioritizes observability, reproducible training, and lightweight inference strategies that make models usable in real teams.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Master of Science - MS at Maastricht UniversityInternational Asian Studies Program, Computer Science, International Asian Studies Program, Computer Science at Chinese University of Hong KongBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) at McGill University
English, French
Github Skills (26)
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mobile-development7
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
zjwarnes/Applied-Machine-Learning-and-Artificial-Intelligence
Mar 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:9 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
zjwarnes/Data-Mining
Feb 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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