Yad Konrad

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5.0

(29 reviews)

US$80.00

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ABOUT ME

Applied Machine Learning Researcher

I'm an applied researcher in machine learning and founder of a research institute where I teach related subjects to ML and build heavy ML powered products.

chronological:

Applied research endeavors have been around natural language processing and reinforcement learning. I have worked as head of machine learning at several startups with consumer facing products.

Background in computer science with concentration in web and networking. Previously, I have built a online school and streaming service such as DraperTV, I have contributed to a dozen of python packages and ruby gems.

I like working with teams that have diverse set of skills.
Harder challenges are usually starting point for learning something new, which gets me excited about all sorts of topics to build or teach on.

English

Eastern Time (US & Canada) (-04:00)

Joined July 2015

EXPERTISE

Machine learning

6 years experience

I work as a researcher around machine learning. From research to modeling and building production level models / applications within mac...

I work as a researcher around machine learning. From research to modeling and building production level models / applications within machine learning.

Python

9 years experience

Python was the first programming language that I actually build things with. I used it back in college to build a text-engine. Python ...

Python was the first programming language that I actually build things with. I used it back in college to build a text-engine. Python libraries and community is very strong, specially in terms of scientific work. In case of automation, scripting and machine learning nowadays as well. 1- I've used it in building scrapers using beautifulsoup. 2- Building web applications with Django. 3- Building APIs using Flask. 4- Building machine learning models using several available frameworks such as Keras and OpenDeep.

Ruby on Rails

5 years experience

I've been building big scale, small scale and any scale web applications with Ruby On Rails for quite a while now. I have built produc...

I've been building big scale, small scale and any scale web applications with Ruby On Rails for quite a while now. I have built products like: 1- Analytic dashboard / administration app. 2- An Online School to serve as a MOOC. 3- Real-time messaging application. 4- A video Web API. 5- A community network application. It's not the answer to every web solution, but it's a pretty neat one most of the time.

JavaScript

4 years experience

I've used Javascript almost all the time side by side with other languages for different scenarios. JS community have come a long way to ...

I've used Javascript almost all the time side by side with other languages for different scenarios. JS community have come a long way to achieve it's current status, so it's fun to work around it.

Relational Database

6 years experience

I've been working around RDBMS since early days of building web applications. Since then I've developed the "database guy" skills to c...

I've been working around RDBMS since early days of building web applications. Since then I've developed the "database guy" skills to customize queries, cache and clustering databases.

DevOps

4 years experience

I've got a hang of developer operations on my own over time. It's a part of making maintainable and 24/7 online services. Having good ...

I've got a hang of developer operations on my own over time. It's a part of making maintainable and 24/7 online services. Having good traffic anomaly detection and error-handling could avoid a lot of issues with high traffic products.

AWS

5 years experience

I've done infrastructure engineering before, though with AWS it's next level. I got the chance to work and connect several services an...

I've done infrastructure engineering before, though with AWS it's next level. I got the chance to work and connect several services and technologies pretty quickly over time.

REVIEWS FROM CLIENTS

5.0

(29 reviews)

Matt Lashinsky

March 2016

Yad was great! Looking forward to chatting with him again.

Justin Davidson

November 2015

Yad was awesome!..our session today was great! He solved an issue i was having completely and explained it clearly. Thanks Yad!...again!

Justin Davidson

October 2015

Another great session! Clear explanations and quick troubleshooting. Thanks again Yad!

Removed User

October 2015

Yad knows what he's talking about and he helped me with some tricky CS concepts. Thanks for your help.

Justin Davidson

October 2015

Once again Yad has clearly and thoroughly explained how to implement a modern technique for me. He provides examples of code being used and then goes about implementing it in our project together. Yad is very knowledgable accross the board on many different topics. Thanks again!!

Justin Davidson

October 2015

Yad is amazing!! He is friendly, easy to chat with and extremely knowledgeable. The way Yad explains things is clear and easy to understand. He breaks down the problem or build and then sets about guiding you through the steps involved in fixing them. He is up to date on modern techniques and practices. I couldn't recommend Yad more! Generally just an all round good guy! :)

Lisa

September 2015

He was awesome! I ran into issues with my code, I was desperate to get an assignment turned in. My audio wasn't working, but he managed to pull through and teach my what I did wrong, gave helpful tips, and taught me things I have not learned in my class. Thank you!!!

steve chek

September 2015

Hi my name is ziv I really enjoyed Yad he really spend his time explaining me the problems I really recommend him

Stephen Shooster

August 2015

Yad has the skills and patience to work through almost any problem. HIs dogged and relentless focus on a solution is akin to a Jedi knights mission to hit a small target on the death star while being hunted by the enemy. Me... in this scenario I was a wingman. I may not have been able to supply the skill but I was there the whole way navigating to a solution. For someone trying to learn to master a skill that's a perfect place to be.

Stephen Shooster

August 2015

Yad has a great attitude and the confidence behind it to make things happen.

SOCIAL PRESENCE

GitHub

Study-Reinforcement-Learning

Studying Reinforcement Learning Guide

132

One-Hundred-Layers-Tiramisu

Keras Implementation of The One Hundred Layers Tiramisu: Fully Convolutional DenseNets for Semantic Segmentation by (Simon Jégou, Michal Drozdzal, David Vazquez, Adriana Romero, Yoshua Bengio)

Jupyter Notebook

Stack Overflow

2217 Reputation

Quick Tips

How To Approach Chat with Ruby On Rails [2016]

How To Change Previous Git Commit Message(s)?

There are times when you just want to commit and push a change out, but then you realize that your commit doesn't really explain what you have...

EMPLOYMENTS

Applied Researcher and Founder

Congruent AI

2019-01-01-Present

- Building tools such as Piplio, utilizing search and deep learning models in NLP and NLU. (Piplio) - Reproducing and applying state of...

- Building tools such as Piplio, utilizing search and deep learning models in NLP and NLU. (Piplio) - Reproducing and applying state of the art research in the field of machine intelligence. - Teaching applied educational projects in computer science and machine learning.

Python

Flask

Machine learning

Python

Flask

Machine learning

Elasticsearch

Computer Vision

Full Stack

NLP

Deep Learning

TensorFlow

Senior Data Engineer

NEAR Foundation

2022-06-01-2024-02-01

HIGHLIGHTED PROJECTS:

NEAR Atlas
- Led the development and implementation of NEAR Atlas, ...

HIGHLIGHTED PROJECTS:

NEAR Atlas
- Led the development and implementation of NEAR Atlas, an expansive analytics and BI platform using technologies such as Snowflake, Airflow, Rust, Python, and JavaScript, enhancing data visualization through custom KPI dashboards and internal financial reporting tools.
- Managed internal SSO integration for tools such as Metabase, ReTool, Snowflake and AWS.
- Directed UI/UX design efforts, achieving a more intuitive user interface that improved user satisfaction andengagement metrics by over 25%.

NEAR Internal CRM
- Managed the deployment of a customized internal CRM system utilizing ReTool and PgSQL, focusing on streamlined ETL processes and database management to support organizational operations.
- Enhanced system efficiency and user experience by implementing automated workflows and data integration solutions, which reduced manual data entry errors by 40%.

Python

PostgreSQL

ETL

Python

PostgreSQL

ETL

Apache Spark

Snowflake

Apache Airflow

Metabase

Senior Research and Data Engineer

NEAR Foundation

2022-08-01-2024-01-01

Besides research, we built various products such as:

[NEAR Atlas](https://nearatlas.com/#/) : an online on-chain analytics platf...

Besides research, we built various products such as:

[NEAR Atlas](https://nearatlas.com/#/) : an online on-chain analytics platform.

Python

SQL

Data Science

Python

SQL

Data Science

Rust

Snowflake

DBT

PROJECTS

Study Reinforcement Learning (open source)View Project

2017

Notes and summaries on several machine learning and reinforcement-learning subjects.

Python

Machine learning

Reinforcement Learning

Python

Machine learning

Reinforcement Learning

Flask and Vuejs Boilerplate (open source)View Project

2020

a simple demonstration of using Python API with VueJS for search and various other applications withing machine learning.

Python

Flask

Elasticsearch

Python

Flask

Elasticsearch

JavaScript

Search algorithms