Melly Beechwood - Machine Learning Engineer 2, Axon

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Work Background

AxonMachine Learning Engineer II

Mar. 2023Seattle, Washington, United States · RemoteActively contributed to the transition of multiple repositories to a centralized Azure V2 platform, improving workflow efficiency and scalability. - Primarily responsible for the development and enhancement of the data preparation and evaluation components of our pipeline. - Ensured the privacy-centric design of the pipeline, with an emphasis on ‘eyes off’ operations, contributing to GDPR compliance in the EU. - Collaborated closely with a global team of machine learning engineers and research data scientists across the EU, Canada, Vietnam, and the US. - Played a key role in our team’s win at a company-wide hackathon, applying innovative chained prompt engineering techniques for a unique solution.

WhyLabsOpensource MLOps Engineer

Mar. 2022 - Nov. 2022Seattle, Washington, United States · Remote- Designed, implemented, and unit tested the Java v1 whylogs enabling users to profile ML/AI pipelines - Helped establish whylogs Python library from 300 to 1000 downloads a day - Automated weekly GitHub Release flow - Developed Jupyter notebooks showcasing tutorials for using a variety of models and data types with whylogs - Actively contributed to Slack community through updates, conversations, and whylogs support - Collaborated with engineers and data scientists on product improvement

Tableau SoftwareSoftware Engineer

Jul. 2018 - Dec. 2021Seattle, WA- Primary developer for the File Format Team for year handling all internal and external customer needs, maintained the framework, and consulted internal teams on implementing their features into the file format. - Refactored the lower, owner-less areas of our code base where even small modularization can affect hundreds of files and multiple teams. - Researched using graph databases as a semantic analysis tool to help understand the code base and assist in complex refactoring and API creation. - Taught through a weekly reading group of about 40 people and a monthly bootcamp that reached every incoming engineer. - Resident rubber ducky. Commonly pulled into tough problems to assist design or debugging.

Sila Solutions GroupConsulting Data Engineer

Feb. 2017 - Mar. 2018Greater Seattle Area- Co-lead 5 ETL developers for a major client integration project between our data mart and a larger data warehouse over several months finishing before the original estimation. - Collaborated with business analysts as their primary data engineer. - Increased team productivity by 35% by creating ETL code generation and testing automation. -Awarded the company SPOT award after teammate nomination.

Los Alamos National LaboratorySoftware Engineer Intern

May. 2015 - Aug. 2015Los Alamos, NM- Refactored a mass file exporting web application into Java EE 7 with DFC and JSF with two team-mates. - Prototyped with AngularJS and REST, but went with SOAP to maintain legacy dependencies. - Modularized the code base for testability and modification using MVC and common design patterns. Tech Stack: Java EE 7, DFC, JSF, SOAP, AngularJS, JavaScript, REST, JUnit, SVN, Documentum, MVC

Sandia National LaboratoriesSoftware Research Intern with CASA

May. 2014 - Jul. 2014Albuquerque, New Mexico Area- Created a UI plugin to OrCad Capture using TCL/TK for one department of electrical engineers. - Negotiated to create an official plug-in with the app store which allowed entire company to use it. - Prototyped simple JQuery apps in OWF to evaluate it as a browser based desktop. Tech Stack: OWF, JQuery, JavaScript, OrCad Capture, TCL/TK

New Mexico ConsortiumComputer Science Intern

Jun. 2013 - Aug. 2013Los Alamos, NM- Part of the CSCNSI at the New Mexico Consortium partnered with the Los Alamos National Lab. - Built a 9 node CentOS cluster first from the ground up and then again using more modern techniques. - Evaluated a software defined network as an added layer of security for a HPC scheduler using our cluster. - Engineered a multi-stage, threaded, and multi-node Bash testing suite to evaluate the SDN. - Presented our findings to a showcase of over 50 national laboratory managers and department executives. - Our research was continued at Los Alamos National Lab. Tech Stack: Bash, Java, Cluster (Super) Computing, Arista Switch, OpenFlow, Floodlight, WireShasrk

New Mexico TechTeaching, Program, and Resident Assistant (Part-time)

Sep. 2011 - May. 2015Socorro, NM- Resident Assistant of 12 graduate and 14 international undergraduate students for my final year. - Head Teaching Assistant for 2 intermediate computer science courses; supervised 7 teaching assistants. - Implemented the Mechanical Engineering Department's website: https://infohost.nmt.edu/~mecheng/ - Teaching Assistant for an introductory C class for 2 semesters that included weekly tutoring. - Program Assistant responsible for organizing and hosting monthly events with up to 100 attendees. Tech Stack: Git, VIM, GDB, EMacs, GCC, Bash, C, Java, FTP