intentional ml
// about

Hi, I'm Jackson Mandeville.

I'm a machine learning engineer, and for nine years my job has been getting models out of notebooks and into products people rely on.

I studied computer science at the University of British Columbia, then started at MITRE in Virginia, where my computer vision work on drone imagery earned the Officer's Award. I spent the next five years at Vancouver startups: computer vision for esports teams at Insights.gg, then weapon detection from electromagnetic signals at Xtract One, where I became Lead Machine Learning Engineer.

Since moving to the Netherlands I've put learning models in front of hundreds of thousands of students at Snappet, and I now build generative AI for legal and tax professionals at Lefebvre SDU.

The Hague, Netherlands
// why the name

That range is the reason for the name. I've built LLM assistants, and I've built classic models that run on embedded hardware, so I can tell you which one your problem actually needs, and then build it properly.

I live in The Hague and work with teams in the US and Canada. Meetings happen in your morning.

// career
  1. 2026 to now Lefebvre SDUSenior AI Engineer · The Hague
  2. 2025 SnappetSenior Machine Learning Engineer · Netherlands
  3. 2024 Forge and SmithFreelance Machine Learning Engineer · Vancouver
  4. 2020 to 2023 Xtract OneLead Machine Learning Engineer · Vancouver
  5. 2018 to 2020 Insights.ggLead Machine Learning Engineer · Vancouver
  6. 2017 to 2018 MITRESoftware Systems Engineer · Virginia · Officer's Award
  7. 2013 to 2017 University of British ColumbiaBSc, Computer Science

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