MichaelĀ Collis
Principal Software Engineer at Blue Apron (blueapron)
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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SeniorMichael Collis is a technology leader specializing in machine learning data engineering, currently directing ML and data infrastructure at Wonder. With 9 years of experience across Google, Blue Apron, and startup-scale ML teams, he drives production-grade ML, personalization, NLP, and large-scale distributed systems. He is proficient across Python, Java, Go, SQL, and more, with hands-on work in Airflow, Kafka, Spark, Flink, Kubernetes, AWS/GCP, and ML tooling like TensorFlow and Langchain. His work emphasizes privacy, security, and compliance while delivering high-performance, scalable data pipelines and cloud infrastructure. An academic and industry hybrid, he is a PhD candidate in Computer Science at the University of Pennsylvania and holds an MS in CS from Penn, with additional CS studies at Stanford and Georgetown and a BA in Economics from Cornell. Based in New York, he blends rigorous research with practical execution to turn complex ML challenges into reliable, auditable systems.
9 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (92)
jwt-authentication10
protoc10
jar10
protocol-buffers10
protobuf10
web-token10
serialization10
rpc10
json-web-token10
protobuf310
buffers10
marshalling9
jwt9
jackson9
jwk9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
blueapron/kafka-connect-jdbc
May 2017 - Aug 2022
Kafka Connect connector for JDBC-compatible databases
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 branches, 2 comments in 5 years 4 months
sinkdatakafka-connectorconnectordatabases
mike9005/incubator-airflow
Sep 2017 - Aug 2024
Contributions:2 pushes in 7 years
incubatingapachebig-datasparkairflow
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