Distributed systems engineer with 17+ years in infrastructure (VMware, American Express, BoFA, AMTRAK). IEEE Senior Member and co-chair of the IEEE-USA AI Policy Committee on Agentic AI and Mental Health and AI.

I presented “The Math Behind the Magic: Understanding the Role of Mathematics in Deep Learning” at Grace Hopper Celebration 2025 — tracing how linear algebra, calculus, and optimization map to torch.autograd, torch.nn, and torch.optim.

Open-source contributor to the PyTorch ecosystem: Optuna, Opik, NVIDIA NemoClaw, PyCaret. Python Software Foundation member. Speaker at PyCon US, PyCon India, PyCon NZ.

Currently building educational materials that teach math intuition through PyTorch code rather than as a prerequisite.

GitHub: https://github.com/AddyM
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