Andrew Prock
Software Engineer at PokerStove
California, United States
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Top SchoolAndrew Prock is a software engineer with more than two decades of experience spanning e-commerce, search, and scalable ML systems. He currently helps advance production-grade ML at Ford Motor Company, while also leading independent consulting through PokerStove and driving multi-modal vector search and ML-driven relevance from prior roles at Anari AI. He has held leadership and senior engineering roles at Rakuten ShopStyle, STRATIM, Immersion, and startups, delivering search, catalog enrichment, and ML classification at scale. A recognized open-source contributor, his PokerStove project delivered core evaluation libraries and cross-platform tooling, reflecting a rare blend of academic depth (PhD in Computer Vision/ML from UW–Madison and BA in Mathematics) with hands-on software craftsmanship. His career also includes entrepreneurship (Megaflop LLP) and research in game theory solvers for poker, underscoring a knack for solving complex optimization problems. Based in California, he combines rigorous research training with practical product development to build innovative, user-focused systems.
12 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at University of Wisconsin-MadisonBachelor of Arts - BA, Bachelor of Arts - BA at University of San Diego
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c-language10
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Github contributions (5)
andrewprock/pokerstove
Apr 2013 - Sep 2022
poker evaluation and enumeration software
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 1 review, 92 commits in 9 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily contributed to the core evaluation libraries of the pokerstove project. Their initial commits involved adding a Win32 installer, suggesting a focus on making the software accessible to Windows users. Further commits show the implementation of evaluation libraries. They worked on the `CardSet.cpp` file, including canonization and rank evaluations.
enumerationevaluation
andrewprock/andrewprock.com
Jul 2023 - May 2024
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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