Joshua Mathias

Joshua Mathias has a diverse work experience in various roles related to machine learning, data science, and project management.

In 2017, they started their career as a Software Development Intern at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, where they worked on NLP projects and implemented language-specific algorithms to improve accuracy.

Joshua then joined FamilySearch as a Research Intern, continuing to work on NLP tasks, specifically aligning English named-entity recognition training data to multiple languages and adapting to language-specific phrasing.

As a self-employed NLP Data Scientist Freelancer, Joshua provided services such as analyzing customer surveys, tutoring NLP students, and comparing PDF conversion utilities.

In 2019, they founded Writealyze, a startup where they pitched a business idea, led a team in creating a demo translation analysis interface, and conducted customer interviews to prioritize features.

Joining EdCast later that year as a Data Scientist, they implemented a framework for personalized learning content recommendations, organized technical documentation for the AI/ML team, and quantified relevance and customer experience goals for content filtering.

At Cantr, they were promoted to the legal business owner role and managed finances while also overseeing Public Relations, Human Resources, Languages, and Programming teams.

In 2020, Joshua joined Bookscribs.com as the Chief Linguistics Officer, Technical Lead, Project Manager, and HR Manager. Joshua recruited and trained new team members, managed various teams including Data Science, Data Engineering, Application Development, QA, and UX/UI Design, and conducted performance reviews.

Joshua then took on the position of Technical Program Manager, responsible for prioritizing and managing multiple NLP projects related to story adaptation to film.

In 2022, Joshua worked as a Machine Learning Architect at Dreamers Inc., where they planned and implemented NLP solutions, developed ML APIs, managed cloud budgets, and worked directly with clients.

Joshua also founded Spiritual Data, a non-profit project focused on organizing spiritual research and information to calculate the probability of spiritual hypotheses. The project has a growing team and emphasizes intellectual humility and autonomy.

Currently, Joshua is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at EdCast by Cornerstone, where they use skill taxonomies to recommend learning content and ensures the team meets commitments to customers in the field of machine learning.

Overall, Joshua Mathias has demonstrated expertise in machine learning, data science, NLP, project management, and entrepreneurship throughout their career.

Joshua Mathias completed their education in a chronological manner. Joshua began their academic journey by attending Grand Rapids Community College in 2010 and completed their studies in Computer Science in 2011. After that, they pursued a Bachelor's degree at Brigham Young University from 2014 to 2016, majoring in Computer Science and Spanish Translation. Joshua further enhanced their knowledge and skills by pursuing a Master's degree in Computational Linguistics at the University of Washington, where they studied from 2017 to 2019. In addition to their academic qualifications, Joshua Mathias obtained a Google Project Management Certificate from Coursera in July 2022.