Update: as of March 2021 I'm officially on the spaCy dev team, so rather than contacting me directly please send mail to contact@explosion.ai.
Howdy - I'm Paul McCann and I'm available for contract work. I've added most of the Japanese support to spaCy, along with some recent work on language data and data structures in general. Outside of spaCy specifically I have experience setting up ML/NLP pipelines and implementing classifiers, duplicate detectors, and the like for production environments.
If you think there's something I can help with contact me at [REMOVED - see above].