I currently lead the Engineering, Data and IT orgs as CTO at MJH Life Sciences. MJH is a healthcare engagement network transforming care from discovery to delivery, reaching 7 million health care professionals every month. We're transforming the team and organization to be AI-first in engineering and ops, and enabling non-technical builders across the org. It's great! Come work with us!

Prior to MJH, I led Machine Learning Engineering (MLE) teams at Audible in the city of Newark, where we launched LLM search, scaled our recommendation infrastructure with extremely-low latency operations over embeddings, and built the future of book listening (on public domain titles only, for now).

I've also had the pleasure of leading Platform engineering at Renaissance, solving interoperability and identity problems, and scaling LLMs for back-office use cases. Prior to that I built the data function at Alloy from the ground up, leading machine learning, data warehousing and data analysis teams, serving models in production that identified fraud and money laundering in the financial system.

I'm deeply passionate about public education, and dream of a future with a more effective and more equitable systems of schools. In Newark, I had a front-row seat for a particularly bold and contentious period in school reform - you might have read about it! I started my career as a public school teacher in the Bronx through Teach for America, helped found a college prep high school in Newark, and led data, research and technology for the Newark Public Schools.

I'm a product of the University of Chicago. I live in Montgomery, NJ with my amazing, talented wife Kerry and our five children.

I'm the author and maintainer of several open source educational tools, particularly njschooldata, which wraps the hodgepodge of NJ educational data into a consistent, tidy interface. That project has grown into a 50-state effort to create clean, simple bindings to public education data from every state DOE, with packages for both R and Python.

Ten years on, I'm still carrying a torch for google reader🪦. Some personal projects:

• splicepod - your personal podcast mixtape. Build and share curated podcast feeds (Android and iOS in private alpha - ping me if you want to join!)
• safe to eat - my personal podcast mixtape, a 5+ year archive of great listens
• weird charts - a collection of weird charts

Drop me a line at almartin@gmail.com or linkedin!