Ziggy Cross Headshot

I'm Ziggy, a software engineer and linguist with a background in digital media and teaching.

Professional

Founder
@ Takeoff
Sep 2024 - Present

Education

Master of Data Science (Computational Linguistics)
@ UBC
Sep 2022 - Jun 2023
Graduate Certificate of Applied Linguistics
@ Monash University
Aug 2021 - Jun 2022
Graduate Certificate of Applied Data Analytics
@ Australian National University
Aug 2021 - Jun 2022
Bachelor of Communications (Media)
@ RMIT
Sep 2018 - Dec 2021
Certificate III in Digital Design for Games
@ Box Hill Institute
Jan 2016 - Jul 2016

    Languages

  • Python
  • JavaScript
  • SQL
  • R
  • Go

    Systems

  • React
  • Linux
  • Git
  • OpenGL

    Software

  • Docker
  • Supabase
  • Conda
  • GitHub

    Libraries

  • Pandas
  • Numpy
  • PyTorch
  • LangChain

Presentations

Caption-informed Speaker Diarization
2023
Department Talks @ UBC Linguistics, Vancouver, Canada
Glossy Bytes: Neural Glossing using Subword Encoding
2023
SIGMORPHON Workshop @ ACL 2023, Toronto, Canada