Don Blaine
Customer Solutions Engineer at iMerit Technology
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolDon Blaine is a Customer Solutions Engineer with 11 years of experience helping companies scale machine learning through bespoke data collection, labeling, and transformation solutions. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he has driven adoption of ML workflows at Figure-Eight/Appen and Toloka by designing front-end annotation interfaces, back-end data pipelines, and LLM evaluation strategies including RLHF. Comfortable across Python, Java, R, SQL and Android, he blends technical hands-on development with product-facing collaboration to turn subjective human judgments into objective, high-quality training data. His background in sociology and a later MSc in Computer Science give him a rare mix of human-centered insight and technical rigor, evidenced by roles that span engineering, operations, and facilities management.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA) Sociology, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Sociology at University of California, BerkeleyMaster of Science (MSc) Computer Science, Master of Science (MSc) Computer Science at University College DublinHigh School Degree, High School Degree at Palm Springs High School
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Github Skills (25)
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
BennyFranco/alinsumos
Aug 2017 - Sep 2018
Contributions:5 PRs, 84 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 1 month
BennyFranco/ArkNix
Aug 2022 - Jun 2023
Contributions:1 release, 105 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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