Eric Yates, Software Engineering Developer in Denver, CO, United States
Eric Yates

Software Engineering Developer in Denver, CO, United States

Member since January 29, 2019
Eric brings proven expertise as an AI engineer with a specialization in NLP. He has set the state-of-the-art accuracy for de-identification of medical records. He combines machine learning with software engineering for production-ready code. He thrives in collaboration with data scientists, web developers, project managers, legal counsel, and executive management teams.
Eric is now available for hire

Portfolio

Experience

Location

Denver, CO, United States

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Git, Jupyter Notebook, Atom

The most amazing...

...NLP model I've ever built achieved 98.2% dev F1-score. That beat the previous state-of-the-art.

Employment

  • Machine Learning Engineer

    2018 - 2019
    Emphasis AI
    • Designed an NLP algorithm with 95% test accuracy.
    • Deployed the NLP algorithm via a RESTful API to a production environment on Digital Ocean.
    • Created an automated testing suite to regularly assess algorithmic performance.
    • Worked with a full-stack developer to improve the reliability of the web application.
    • Collaborated with founder and patent attorney on a provisional patent.
    Technologies: Natural Language Processing (NLP), Django, Python
  • Machine Learning Engineer

    2017 - 2019
    Medley
    • Beat state-of-the-art for de-identification of medical records with a 98.2% dev F1-score.
    • Trained a neural network for named entity recognition.
    • Deployed the de-identification model to a production environment with Flask, Nginx, and Gunicorn.
    • Collaborated with a full-stack developer to build a search engine for medical records.
    • Automated build processes with bash scripting.
    Technologies: Flask, SpaCy, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Python
  • Machine Learning Engineer

    2018 - 2018
    Independent Contractor
    • Built an end-to-end pipeline for making machine learning predictions.
    • Estimated to allow the liquidation of $750,000-$1.25 million per month.
    • Collaborated with a data scientist to integrate with a scraper and database system.
    • Used Keras to build and train deep neural networks.
    • Deployed the model to a RESTful API with Flask on a Digital Ocean server.
    Technologies: Flask, Keras, Scikit-learn, Python
  • Co-Founder/Software Developer

    2015 - 2017
    Lexi
    • Created a prototype software-defined radio for ZigBee and 2G protocols.
    • Performed system administration with Linux and bash scripting.
    • Interfaced hardware and software with GNURadio.
    • Collected environmental data using sensors with Arduino.
    • Performed customer discovery for the Illinois NSF I-Corps Program.
    Technologies: Bash, Arduino, Linux

Experience

  • Anoni - De-Identification of Medical Records
    https://github.com/medra-labs/anoni

    Removes protected health information (PHI) from free text in medical records. Achieved 98.2% dev F1-score, which is state-of-the-art, by fine-tuning BERT large on a distributed GPU cluster.

  • Voice User Interface

    Built a voice user interface with a chatbot built into a browser.

  • Machine Learning From Scratch
    https://github.com/eric-yates/Machine-Learning-from-Scratch

    Built 12 machine learning algorithms in Python from scratch. Derived a recursive backpropagation algorithm for a neural network.

Skills

  • Languages

    Python, Bash, SQL, R
  • Libraries/APIs

    Pandas, Scikit-learn, Keras, SpaCy, NumPy, NLTK, Matplotlib, TensorFlow
  • Paradigms

    Object-oriented Programming (OOP), Functional Programming
  • Platforms

    Linux, Jupyter Notebook, Arduino
  • Other

    Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Deep Learning, Software Engineering, Data Visualization, Mixed Reality (MR), Software Development, Deployment, APIs, Gunicorn
  • Frameworks

    Flask, Django
  • Tools

    Seaborn, Atom, Git, NGINX
  • Storage

    PostgreSQL, MySQL

Education

  • Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering
    2011 - 2016
    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign - Illinois

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