Cory Massaro

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ABOUT ME

Backend NLP Engineer

I am passionate about natural language processing generally, with specific interests in natural language understanding/generation and information extraction. I currently work with backend systems and developer operations, architecting services with Kubernetes, Docker, and WebAssembly to support Abstract Wikipedia.

I worked on Google's Speech and Keyboard team for approximately three years, during which time I built language models for a wide array of human languages. During this time, I honed my skills with and understanding of machine learning algorithms, in particular state-of-the-art neural network research.

Before that, I had various internships in which I built full pipelines to extract information like topics, named entities, and relationships between entities. Much of the text with which I worked came from medicine (doctor's notes, etc.); I believe that areas such as medicine hold great promise as socially beneficial uses of NLP technology. In these projects, I primarily relied on older NLP technologies like SVNs, CRFs, HMMs, and Maximum Entropy classifiers.

I am currently experimenting with the use of evolutionary programming in NLP, attempting to bridge the gap between human and machine-internal semantic representations.

Persian, Spanish, English

Quito (-05:00)

Joined August 2017

EXPERTISE

C++

10 years experience

I primarily wrote C++ during my tenure at Google. C++ code in Google's code base is expected to be performant, readable, and rigorously u...

I primarily wrote C++ during my tenure at Google. C++ code in Google's code base is expected to be performant, readable, and rigorously unit tested. My code took full advantage of modern C++ constructs like smart pointers, lambdas, string_view, etc.

Testing Unit Testing Algorithm NLP

Python

10 years experience

I used Python while studying natural language processing and to prototype machine learning models at Google. I have also built small webs...

I used Python while studying natural language processing and to prototype machine learning models at Google. I have also built small websites using Python, particularly with Flask.

RESTful API Pandas TensorFlow

RESTful API Pandas TensorFlow Nltk Flask Scipy

NLP

5 years experience

As a student, I built end-to-end information extraction systems using named entity recognition/chunking, relation extraction, and relatio...

As a student, I built end-to-end information extraction systems using named entity recognition/chunking, relation extraction, and relation classification. I also used libraries like PocketSphinx to build speech recognizers. I then worked on Google's speech team, where I worked with state-of-the-art language models.

Nltk Neural Networks Artificial Neural Networks

Nltk Neural Networks Artificial Neural Networks Information Retrieval Data Mining

JavaScript

4 years experience

Currently implementing the backend for Wikifunctions [1], which consists of a series of microservices in JavaScript. Contributed to the M...

Currently implementing the backend for Wikifunctions [1], which consists of a series of microservices in JavaScript. Contributed to the MiPandas genetics visualization and analysis tool using React. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikifunctions

Express.js Swagger Node.js

Express.js Swagger Node.js React

Docker

6 years experience

All of the microservices I build at the Wikimedia Foundation are built and shipped as Docker images.

Docker Compose

WebAssembly

3 years experience

I used WebAssembly and the WebAssembly System Interface to run sandboxed code in production environments.

Node.js

4 years experience

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EMPLOYMENTS

Senior Software Engineer

Wikimedia Foundation

2021-01-01-Present

Implementing the backend for Wikifunctions [1] and imagining the natural language component of Abstract Wikipedia! [1] https://en.wikipe...

Implementing the backend for Wikifunctions [1] and imagining the natural language component of Abstract Wikipedia! [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikifunctions

PHP

Python

Node.js

PHP

Python

Node.js

Docker

JavaScript

Express.js

Software Engineer

Google

2014-09-01-2017-08-01

I built language models for a wide array of human languages (100+). During this time, I honed my skills with and understanding of machine...

I built language models for a wide array of human languages (100+). During this time, I honed my skills with and understanding of machine learning algorithms, in particular state-of-the-art neural network research.

TensorFlow

Openfst

TensorFlow

Openfst