Sean Quigley
Founder at Surface AI
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSean Quigley is a seasoned software leader and founder with 12 years of experience delivering large-scale information retrieval, machine learning, and data engineering solutions. He is the founder of Surface AI (since 2025) and previously steered engineering at GIPHY across Search, Discovery, Content Engineering, and Public API, including a pioneering Learn-To-Rank migration of the core search platform. At Shutterstock, he helped build a high-throughput data platform with streaming analytics over Kafka, Hadoop, and Hive, and led API design for automated schema inference and SQL-like translation. He also held senior roles at Meta/GIPHY and led data science efforts earlier at Klick Push and TRQ Analytics, giving him a rare blend of hands-on engineering and strategic product leadership. Based in New York, Sean’s background in physics and economics from University of Michigan and data science training at General Assembly informs a quantitative, hypothesis-driven approach to scalable ML and search systems. He thrives at the intersection of research, product, and platform engineering, turning complex information retrieval challenges into reliable, auditable production systems.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Data science and machine learning, Data science and machine learning at General AssemblyB.S., Physics, Economics, B.S., Physics, Economics at University of Michigan
Github Skills (63)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
seanpquig/betting-odds-analyzer
Nov 2015 - Mar 2018
Contributions:92 commits, 1 PR, 79 pushes in 2 years 3 months
statisticspythonmachine-learningbettingodds
seanpquig/mini-search
Jul 2017 - Jan 2019
A single-node, in-memory search engine (mostly for experimental purposes)
Contributions:2 PRs, 25 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 6 months
single-nodememorysearch-enginein-memorysearch
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