Textualization Software Ltd.

Custom machine learning metrics based on the unique characteristics of your business: ML optimizes what you ask to optimize, using off-the-shelf metrics might leave very expensive errors unnoticed.

Assessing existing human and computational resources: for hiring, retaining, purchasing and maintenance.

Architecting a complex data science solution with a focus on long-term maintainability: one shot vs long shot.

Communicating existing solutions to the business side of your company to enable effective feedback: Dr. Duboue runs his own business and he presents data science topics in business terms.

• Large Language Models: experience fine-tuning models, evaluating them, designing AI products on top of them, and assembling training instructions, both with open source models and OpenAI API (ChatGPT, GPT4).
• Chatbots: ample experience in the field, including designing dialogue trees, training models from scratch and model maintenance.
• Semantic search, customized IR: enhancing search based on business specific annotations.
• Custom text analytics pipelines: automatic annotation of large volumes of text based on business-specific types of information, including writing annotation guidelines for human annotators.
• Multilingual natural language processing: experience with processing English, French and Spanish.
• Information extraction: design, implement and deploy pipelines that process text and extract business-specific information (for example, to fill an Excel file).
• Marketplaces: matching products to costumers, jobs to applicants or friends to newcommers.
• Code migration: moving from unmaintained, legacy ML libraries to state-of-the-art technology.
• Machine learning (ML) in the browser: transforming ML solutions to run in the Web browser for lower cost and enhanced privacy.
• Machine learning operations (MLops) / data manipulation DSLs (domain-specific languages): designing and writing custom programming languages to handle specific data manipulation needs.
• Trainable distance functions: training functions that tell whether two items (customers, contracts, sales leads) are similar based on business needs.
• Automatic privacy cleaning: detecting PII (personally identifiable information) and replacing it with placeholders.

Other consulting firms are staffing firms. In our case, all work is done by Dr. Duboue and as such, availability might be limited at times. (If you need a team to develop a full solution, Dr. Duboue can refer you to such companies.) Currently, we have one slot available of 5 hs a week.

Dr. Duboue is located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and works remotely at times compatible with Pacific Time. Once the current pandemic subsides, he is open to contracts that include scheduled trips within North America.

Dr. Duboue engages in work-for-hire contracts with complete IP transfer, billed by pre-negotiated hourly rates, payable by check or wire transfer to a Canadian bank. Canadian customers will get GST added to their invoices. His time can qualify for Canadian SRED credits as a consultant. During the contract, Dr. Duboue is available for work meetings at the negotiated rate. He has a limited number of consulting hours per week and limited number of concurrent contracts.

• Does not engage with competing customers concurrently.
• Has helped file patents on behalf of several customers.
• Senior proficiency in Java, Scala, Python, Haskell. Also competency in Golang, Elm, Javascript.
• Other technology includes: Spark, Scikit-Learn, NumPy, OpenCV, Tensorflow, Keras, OpenAI Gym, Jupyter Notebooks, Node.js, Elm, Bootstrap, Flask, Scalatra, Django, Git, Bash, Linux (Debian and derivatives), Docker, Weka, Mallet, UIMA, spaCy, NLTK, Knowledge Graphs, SPARQL, RDF, JSON, XML, XSLT, Rule-based systems, RuTA, ClearTk, PHP, Perl, Latex, Lua, SQLite3, PostgreSQL, JNI, Delphi, VB, Win32. See his resume for more details.