Hey, how’s it going? I’m Matthew Kirk, a software engineer based out of Seattle, WA. I’m also the author of Thoughtful Machine Learning, where I present doing test-driven software development with data in Ruby, and Thoughtful Machine Learning in Python (which is available for sale on February 4th, 2017).

I’ve been building web apps since 2009 and have always been “the data guy”, thanks to my applied math degree and my previous life as a financial quant.

In my career, I’ve been fortunate enough to speak around the world about software and work on interesting projects with later-stage startups. I’ve built social media sentiment engines, diamond recommendation tools, and e-commerce search algorithms...and always got frustrated with how my data projects never seemed to follow best development practices.

So instead of preaching to my coworkers, I wrote Thoughtful Machine Learning as a way to share my knowledge with the world.

There’s lots of machine learning books out there, and I recommend you take a look at all of them. But if you want the skinny, my books are for developers who don’t care about the nuances of academic theories of machine learning…and just want to implement something in their daily work.

If you ever want to chat machine learning, my email is matt@matthewkirk.com. I look forward to hearing from you.