Elena Freeman

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Staff ML Engineer at Glade Bio · PyTorch, feature stores

Glade Bio
Calgary, AB · MT (UTC-7)
15+ years experience
University of Alberta
English
Open to work
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Overview

Based in Calgary. I work on ML infrastructure at Glade Bio. Brought on-call pages for ML platform down from 27 a week to 3. Shipped 24 launches on the ML platform team without a rollback. Before that: Meta and Microsoft. Most at home with CUDA and model serving. Open-source contributor on weekends.

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  • Roles in recommendation systems
  • Working sessions on Python
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
  • Second opinions on PyTorch decisions
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  • Courses and coaching offers
  • Offshore staffing offers

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Skills
PyTorchmodel servingfeature storesPythonCUDA
Open to workLooking for a role
closes in 3 months

Next role: ML Engineer in healthtech, Calgary or hybrid

Target roles
ML Engineer
Level
Senior
Industries
Healthtech, Logistics
Work mode
On-site
Available
From next quarter
Work authorization
Authorized to work in the AB
What I'm looking for
Hands-on work on Python with room to mentor.
Not interested in
Night shifts

15 years in ML infrastructure. Strongest at PyTorch and Python. Available immediately.

Calgary, ABfeature storespythoncuda
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Experience

  1. Staff ML Engineer
    Mar 2023 - Present
    Glade Bio · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Calgary, AB
    • Shipped a ranking change that increased conversion 8.2%.
    • Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
    • Taught SQL to 99 non-analysts.
  2. Senior ML Engineer
    Nov 2019 - Mar 2023
    Meta · 3 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Calgary, AB
    • Built the recommendations models now used in 6 product decisions a quarter.
    • Replaced 96 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
  3. Engineering Manager
    Jul 2017 - Nov 2019
    Microsoft · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Calgary, AB
    • Reduced cloud spend on ML platform by 36% in two quarters.
  4. ML Engineer
    Nov 2014 - Jul 2017
    Amazon · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Calgary, AB
    • Shipped a ranking change that increased conversion 5.7%.
    • Moved the homepage from rules to a learned ranker.
  5. ML Engineer
    Jun 2011 - Jul 2014
    Scotiabank · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Calgary, AB
    • Shipped a ranking change that increased conversion 3.9%.
    • Moved the homepage from rules to a learned ranker.

Projects

Side project: a commute planner
2023

Built with feature stores and Python. 1691 people used it last year.

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Education

  1. University of Alberta
    BSc, Electrical Engineering
    2006 - 2010

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