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ANDREW NELSON

Parker,CO

Summary

Demo Solutions expert with 7+ years of expertise in Chrome Extension, web, SDK, and API development, particularly in martech. Blends linguistics, NLP, and AI to create demos and solutions that unify technology, user experience, and storytelling. Skilled in front-end architecture and back-end optimization to deliver measurable impact and seamless experiences. Maintains a commitment to continuous learning, staying at the forefront of emerging technologies while fostering cross-functional collaboration.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Demo Engineer

Iterable
03.2022 - Current
  • Architected a sophisticated MV3 Chrome extension leveraging TypeScript, React, and a custom build pipeline - enabling hundreds of internal users to deliver seamless, high-impact demos of the Iterable platform and significantly improving sales effectiveness and customer engagement
  • Engineered end-to-end iOS and web applications (including 'Fiterable') to showcase Iterable's channels and features, expanding demo capabilities across multiple platforms and accelerating product adoption among prospective clients

Technical Founder

Readefine
10.2020 - Current
  • Invented Readefine, a browser extension that rewords static content on the internet - it's like Grammarly but for reading instead of writing
  • Architected browser extensions, custom build scripts, web apps, and iOS apps, along with integrations with Stripe, OpenAI, and Firebase
  • Featured in the Chrome Web Store's monthly spotlight, where Readefine gained exposure on the homepage for an entire month
  • Prototyped a transformer based rewording approach before opting to use OpenAI models for rewording content in truly dynamic ways

Knowledge Engineer (Computational Linguist)

Expert.ai
06.2021 - 03.2022
  • Enabled clients to effectively leverage AI models, resulting in tailored solutions that address specific business challenges with 90+% accuracy on categorization and extraction tasks

Linguist

Datapeople
01.2019 - 06.2021
  • Reporting directly to the CPO, owned language guidance and suggestions on the Datapeople job description editor
  • Scaled the language guidance from 70k changes to hundreds of millions of changes by leveraging parts of speech, named entity coreference, and a custom corpus of over 1 million job descriptions
  • Developed and deployed chrome extensions and web apps

Associate Linguistic Project Manager

Appen
10.2018 - 02.2019
  • Managed linguistic annotation projects for Appen's clients
  • Applied knowledge of linguistic phenomena, technical skills, and attention to detail to manage projects to quality expectations, timelines, and budget
  • Managed stakeholder relationships and teams of language specialists around the world

Junior AI Psychologist

Aigo.ai
01.2018 - 10.2018
  • Developed the linguistic rules and thought patterns of a general purpose AI chatbot
  • Focused particularly on the AI's ability to disambiguate senses of polysemous verbs

Education

Master of Arts - Linguistics & Ancient Languages

Biola University
California
05-2018

Bachelor of Arts - Religious Studies

Oklahoma Baptist University
Oklahoma
01-2015

Skills

  • Web Development
  • Typescript
  • Nodejs
  • Marketing Technology
  • React
  • Swift
  • Python
  • Cloud (AWS GCP)

Timeline

Senior Demo Engineer

Iterable
03.2022 - Current

Knowledge Engineer (Computational Linguist)

Expert.ai
06.2021 - 03.2022

Technical Founder

Readefine
10.2020 - Current

Linguist

Datapeople
01.2019 - 06.2021

Associate Linguistic Project Manager

Appen
10.2018 - 02.2019

Junior AI Psychologist

Aigo.ai
01.2018 - 10.2018

Master of Arts - Linguistics & Ancient Languages

Biola University

Bachelor of Arts - Religious Studies

Oklahoma Baptist University
ANDREW NELSON