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Professional history and CV

Basics

Name James Vance
Label Machine Learning Engineer
Email james.dvance@gmail.com
Url https://jamesdvance.com
Summary Machine learning engineer who builds on earlier experience as a data scientist to build the best possible MLOps environments. When I'm not optimizing iterative ML workflows, I love making things run faster.

Work

  • 2024.12 - Present
    Sr Machine Learning Engineer
    Amazon
    Sr MLE leading major designs of MLOps infrastructure and ML production pipelines
    • Refactored scientist’s complex probabilistic model to utilize gpu with cupy. Achieved over 50% reduction in inference time, fixing repeated timeout issues in the deployment

Education

  • 2014.01 - 2015.01

    Charlottesville, Virginia

    Master's
    University of Virginia
    Systems Engineering
    • Optimization
    • Probability

Certificates

Linux+
CompTia 2021-03-01
Security+
CompTia 2020-12-01
AWS Sol. Architect - Asc
Amazon Web Services 2018-06-01

Skills

Machine Learning
MLOps
CICD
Programming
Python
C++
Typescript (mostly CDK)
SQL
ETL
Spark
AWS Glue
Apache Airflow

Projects

  • 2017.01 - 2020.06
    Plan Your Meals
    Meal planner to give you no excuses for not finding food to fit your goals
    • Linear Optimization
    • Full Stack