Justin Basilico
Summary
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SeniorJustin Basilico is a principal engineer and AI researcher who excels at turning research into scalable, real-world intelligence. With experience spanning Netflix and Google, he has led teams designing and deploying large-scale recommendation and personalization systems that touch hundreds of millions of users, from ranking and homepages to live experimentation and deployment. He builds end-to-end systems that couple data platforms, online experimentation, and real-time inference, while shaping the infrastructure that sustains AI at scale. His work traces the evolution from collaborative filtering to learning-to-rank, deep learning, bandits, and transformers, with a current focus on leveraging large language and generative models to create more adaptive, human-aligned experiences. Based in Los Gatos, California, he bridges research, engineering, product, and strategy to empower teams to innovate responsibly and impactfully. He holds an MS in Computer Science from Brown and a BA from Pomona College, reflecting a durable commitment to both theory and hands-on delivery.
14 years of coding experience
Github Skills (10)
foundry10
machine-learning10
deep-learning10
java10
intelligent10
oop8
algebra8
high-performance7
rocket7
linear-algebra6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
algorithmfoundry/Foundry
Aug 2011 - Dec 2020
The Cognitive Foundry is an open-source Java library for building intelligent systems using machine learning
Contributions:6 releases, 2 reviews, 343 commits in 9 years 6 months
foundryintelligent-systemsjava-librarydeep-learningmachine-learning
jbasilico/Foundry
May 2015 - Mar 2017
The Cognitive Foundry is an open-source Java library for building intelligent systems
Contributions:35 commits, 65 pushes, 14 branches in 1 year 10 months
foundryintelligent-systemsjava-librarycognitivejava-source
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