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Professional history and CV
Basics
| Name | James Vance | 
| Label | Machine Learning Engineer | 
| 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
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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
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2014.01 - 2015.01 Charlottesville, Virginia
 
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
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