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Hire Agata S. - NLP Engineer

Software Engineer

19+ years
sunnyvale, california, united states
Apple

About agata

I specialize in NLP and conversational AI and am currently with Amazon developing Alexa features for Echo devices (including cars, phones, tablets, and wearables). I have a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and experience in ML, NLP, Data Science, and Software Engineering. My dissertation analyzed the language of propaganda in German texts. At Google, I trained Natural Language Understanding models and developed grammar for Google Assistant (Polish and English) for cars, phones, and home appliances. At Amazon Web Services, I helped optimize NLP models and evaluated data quality for Automatic Speech Recognition for multiple languages. I am passionate about coding and solving language-based challenges. Programming​: Python (day-to-day), SQL, C++, PostgreSQL, R, Bash scripting. Technical Tools​: Amazon Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker, AWS Cloud (EC2 and S3), Google Cloud, IBM Cloud, Git, JIRA, Sublime Text, Visual Studio Code, IntelliJ, BigQuery, TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch, NLTK, spaCy, scikit-learn, gensim, pandas, NumPy, seaborn, matplotlib, Pydub, SoX, FFmpeg, Praat, Audacity, Beautiful Soup, tweepy, Apache Beam, pickle, NoSQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL.

Key Skills

academic advisingacademic writingadult educationagentic ai developmentagentic automationagentic modeagentic workflowsamazon web servicesamerican literatureartificial intelligenceclosingscommunicationcomparative literaturecomputational linguisticscontext aware conversational agents+74 more

Experience

Software Engineer

Current

Apple

Quality Engineering for Siri testing

Language Engineer

Amazon

* Craft, hone, and test prompts for Large Language Model (LLM) agents, ensuring reliability for all clients. * Design, develop, and test multi-modal Alexa features in collaboration with product and engineering teams. * Successfully launch and enhance location-related features such as curbside pickup and item locating. * Train, evaluate, and refine NLP and Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) models for exceptional quality. * Author and review grammar and code, driving excellence through pre-launch experiments and tests. * Work with scientists to refine Machine Learning (ML) tools and engineer features for predicting device lapse. * Coach developers on personalization best practices, setup, and debugging, while mentoring teammates on NLP. * Lead the cross-functional team, overseeing project timelines, data collection, annotation, guidelines, and metrics.

Data Engineer

Amazon Web Services (aws)

* AWS via Aditi Consulting, LLC * Analyzed Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) errors and optimized language models for ASR systems. * Revised phonetic notations for acoustic modeling and evaluated the quality of conversational data for ASR. * Communicated new research techniques to accelerate the ASR model training and improve model performance. * Collaborated with product managers, engineers, and linguists on designing quality metrics and unit tests. * Set and oversaw team milestones and timelines for product deliveries for fifteen languages and dialects. * Wrote guidelines for collecting, transcribing, and annotating conversational data in Polish for ASR. * Curated data for chatbot conversations and identified gaps and improvement opportunities in dialog flows.

Education

The City University Of New York

The Graduate Center, City University Of New York

Doctor Of Philosophy

University Of Silesia In Katowice

Master Of Arts

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agata specializes in NLP Engineer, with expertise in academic advising, academic writing, adult education, agentic ai development, agentic automation.

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agata is based in sunnyvale, california, united states.

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agata has 19+ years of professional experience.

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