Joshua Nelson
Machine Learning Engineer
Education
- Dean's Honors List (all semesters)
- President of ACM Student Chapter
Experience
- Developed and deployed a Deep Learning-based recommendation engine that increased user engagement by 22%.
- Optimized a transformer-based NLP model, reducing inference latency by 40% while maintaining 95% accuracy.
- Processed and analyzed a dataset of 10TB+ using PySpark to engineer features for a predictive churn model.
- Collaborated cross-functionally to engineer and deliver core Machine Learning Engineer solutions with 99.9% uptime.
- Participated in automated testing and CI/CD pipelines, accelerating release cycles by 25%.
Projects
- Implemented distributed consensus protocol with leader election and fault-tolerant replicated state machine.
- Benchmarked throughput reaching 100,000 tasks/second across a 5-node cluster.