Michael Alo
Senior Machine Learning Engineer | MLOps
Salary / Daily rate
Melbourne VIC, Australia
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Skills
Languages
Work experience
Machine Learning Science & Engineering Specialist
Booking.com
Jan 2023 - Present
3 years 10 months
Scientific and Engineering contributor across the Search, Match & Book ML, Content Intelligence ML and Ranking & Recommendation Teams (e.g User Generated Content processing and modelling, LLM used for many purposes, RL, Recommenders, MLOps and ML Systems, Model Response Latency Optimisation).
Professional development
Career Break
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
11 months
Melbourne and Europe
Building an [LLM+RL]-driven administrative agent (WIP). Working with a couple of start-ups as a Lead DS and MLE/MLOps. Freelancing/Consulting as an AI/ML, MLE and MLOps specialist. Also focusing on augmenting my skills and knowledge in AI/ML Science, ML Engineer (incl. MLOps) and Data Engineering.
Data Science & Machine Learning Engineering Tech Lead
EnergyAustralia
Mar 2021 - Mar 2022
1 year 1 month
Melbourne VIC, Australia
Senior MLOps Machine Learning Engineer
Resolution Life
Nov 2020 - Mar 2021
5 months
Melbourne VIC, Australia
Project Lead Data Scientist
Vocus Communications
Feb 2018 - Nov 2020
2 years 10 months
Melbourne VIC, Australia
Senior Data Scientist & Statistician
Pepperstone
Feb 2017 - Feb 2018
1 year 1 month
Melbourne VIC, Australia
Senior Consultant (Data Science & Actuarial Services)
Deloitte Australia
Sep 2015 - Feb 2017
1 year 6 months
Melbourne VIC, Australia
Consulting in Data Science, Actuarial, Banking, Risk and Financial matters
Quant & Lieutenant Firefighter (Dual position)
Belgian Federal Government, Rescue Department
Jan 2014 - Dec 2015
2 years
Brussels · On-site
Researcher & Lecturer in Stochastic Finance, Statistics and Time series
Université catholique de Louvain
Jan 2013 - Dec 2015
3 years
Leuven, Belgium
Fields of research : Financial econometrics and time-series modeling (mainly Dynamic time structure of interest rates modeling)
Actuary & Statistician (General & Life)
Generali Italia
Jan 2014 - Dec 2014
1 year
Trieste, Province of Trieste, Italy
In-force life policy risk and performance assessment
Actuarial Consultant & Researcher
Reacfin
Jan 2012 - Dec 2013
2 years
Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Claims modeling with inflation in health sector (with R) Studying, testing and implementing an innovative claims reserving method (with R)
Actuary & Researcher
National Bank of Belgium
Jan 2012 - Dec 2012
1 year
Brussels, Belgium
Studying and modeling the possible impacts of the "Contract boundaries" of Solvency 2 on the best-estimates and own funds of insurance undertakings in order to anticipate their strategical reactions and to think about regulating measures.
Senior Data Analyst
Fenwal, Inc., a Fresenius Kabi Company
Jan 2011 - Dec 2011
1 year
Brussels, Belgium
Data Analyst
Unifine Belgium
Jan 2010 - Dec 2011
2 years
Brussels, Belgium
Financial and IT Internal Auditor
National Bank of Belgium
Jan 2008 - Dec 2009
2 years
Brussels, Belgium
Teacher in Economics
CFWB - Institut Etienne Lenoir
Jan 2009 - Sep 2009
9 months
6700 Arlon, Belgium
Education
Coursera
Course, Data Science & Machine Learning
2015 - Present
11 years 10 months
1) Machine Learning, Stanford University 2) Machine Learning Foundations: A Case Study Approach, University of Washington 3) Practical Machine Learning, John Hopkins University 4) R Programming and Exploratory Data Analysis, John Hopkins University 5) Neural Networks for Machine Learning, University of Toronto 6) Probabilistic Graphical Models, Stanford University
KU Leuven
Master's degree, Econometrics & Financial Economics
2009 - Present
17 years 10 months
KU Leuven
PhD candidate, Statistics, Econometrics and Time-series, Macro-Finance
2013 - 2015
3 years
KU Leuven
Master's degree, Actuarial Sciences
2011 - 2013
3 years
Université catholique de Louvain
Master's degree, Business Administration and Sciences (Finance, Accounting, Auditing, Control)
2002 - 2007
6 years
Erasmus exchange with the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Licenses & certifications
Microsoft DP-100T01 - Designing and Implementing a Data Science Solution on Azure
Issued: Apr 2021