Liad Magen
Angestellt, Machine Learning Researcher, Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) / INSO
Wien, Austria
About me
I'm a software engineer and a data scientist with enhanced focus on Machine Learning research and methods. In particular my expertise are in Natural Language Processing and information extraction from visually rich documents, such as websites, invoices, scanned contracts, etc.
Timeline
Professional experience for Liad Magen
Current 1 year and 9 months, since Jul 2021
Machine Learning Researcher
Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) / INSO
Living the Machine Learning dream.
Current 2 years and 11 months, since May 2020
Co-founder & CTO
MeetPlans
MeetPlans is a platform that enables organizations, specifically in the field of Healthcare, to schedule and conduct online meeting and supply online medical presence to the organization clients.
1 year and 9 months, Oct 2019 - Jun 2021
Software & Machine Learning Engineer
Finmatics - Abacus Accounting Technologies GmbH
3 months, Sep 2020 - Nov 2020
AI & Natural Language Processing (NLP) Trainer
Asigmo
Teaching and training a crash-course of a week (42 hours) in Natural Language Processing and related Machine Learning, including classical statistical NLP as well as deep learning methods (transformers & graph-based approaches)
7 months, Mar 2019 - Sep 2019
AI & NLP Researcher
EnliteAI GmbH
9 months, May 2018 - Jan 2019
Tech & AI Lead
WeAreDevelopers GmbH
dev team lead: system & DB Architecture design, Project Management; Software Development; Data science & data analytics; predictive machine learning models & recommendation system using Natural Language Procsssing; Speaker, Meetups-organizer, Taught Machine learning and gave technical talks, Lead hands-on machine-learning oriented workshops Mentored the junior developers and data scientists; Python, GoLang, PHP / Laravel, React + Typescript, VueJS, Docker + Kubernetes, MySQL, ArangoDB and many more
3 years and 11 months, Jun 2014 - Apr 2018
Senior Agile Software Engineer
Nuance Communications Austria
- Developing data-analytics dashboard using AngularJS/C# - Predictive maintenance - analyzing time-series and creating machine-learning based models for anomaly-detection - Analyzing customer churn - Contributing to the SDK/API layer using JS / Typescript - Designing module's internal architecture (OOD) - Giving talks about new technologies and methods Tech Stack: Python, Keras, R, C# / .NET, AngularJS, Typescript, SQL Server
8 months, Oct 2013 - May 2014
Senior Frontend Dveloper
SmartFocus
- Working in a agile/scrum-team environment - Developed 'widgets' for analyzing user activity statistics using charts - Built a web-based email editor application Tech Stack: BackboneJS + MarionetteJS, NodeJS, LESS.css, JAVA
1 year, Sep 2012 - Aug 2013
internship (biomedical engineering - Bioinformatics/data-science)
University Paris Descartes
internship (biomedical engineering - Bioinformatics/data-science) During my biomedical engineering masters studies, I've been developing software for research purposes (citizen-science). The collected data was analyzed using Machine learning algorithms, such as graph-theory algorithms (SNA). Tech-stack: AngularJS, Node.JS (ExpressJS). DBs: Neo4J, MongoDB, Octave
1 year and 9 months, Jan 2011 - Sep 2012
Frontend Team Leader
ProductionMap
ProductionMap is a SaaS that helps the configuration management of software deployment. I was working mostly on the front-end and coordinated a small team, on site and off-shore. During that time, I was responsible of: - Hands-on leading the development of the product's web facade, using Sencha Ext-JS 4 and mxGraph (jGraph) Javascript version. - Developing the back-end using ASP.NET/C#, WCF and SQL-Server (entity framework) as well as creating its API
1 year and 9 months, Jan 2011 - Sep 2012
Lead Software Developer
Brightspots
I was the first employee of this startup, which was creating marketing mobile games, and developed web-based mobile apps, designed and developed the server architecture. Tech Stack: Flash AS3, HTML5, ASP.NET, JavaScript, nodeJS, Java (for android).
4 years and 1 month, Sep 2008 - Sep 2012
Senior Software Developer & Consultant
self-employed
- managed a small development team - creating the infrastructures for Arkia Israeli Airlines website (ASP.NET, Oracle PL/SQL) - coordinated between a local Spanish team and Argentinean PHP development team for a start-up project in Palma de Mallorca, including hands-on development
1 year and 9 months, Jan 2006 - Sep 2007
Software Eng.
XMPie (XEROX)
I have developed an eCommerce solution product as part of a small ASP.NET team, as well as responsible for the Adobe Flash Actionscript3 development of few editor features.
3 years and 6 months, Jul 2002 - Dec 2005
Software Developer
PNMSoft LTD.
During my B.A in computer science, I developed web and desktop applications as well as server-services using SQL Server & Oracle PL/SQL as a DB, and ASP / ASP.NET, Javascript, VB6. I also have used technologies such as BizTalk 2004 and Sharepoint 2004 and developed for it as well.
1 year and 6 months, Jan 2001 - Jun 2002
Freelance Developer & Software Lecturer
Freelance
During this time as a freelancer I have developed a loan workflow management application for Citibank N.A. using VB6 and Sql Server; created an IP-Phone long distance calls billing software for a local company named E.I.M Telecom; assisted developing the website http://www.mustop.com in ASP; and instructed ASP/Javascript, JAVA and PL/SQL in the local branch of New Horizons LTD computer college.
Educational background for Liad Magen
11 months, Sep 2012 - Jul 2013
BioMedicine Ingineering
Paris Descartes University
Machine learning, Immune System, Applied Mathematics, Graph Theory Algorithms
3 years and 7 months, Oct 2003 - Apr 2007
Computer Science
Tel Aviv-Jaffa College
Parallel computing J2ME - Java for Mobile devices
Languages
English
Fluent
Spanish
Intermediate
Portuguese
Basic
French
Intermediate
Hebrew
First language
German
Intermediate