Summary
Andrew Dodd is a Machine Learning Engineer in New York with nine years of experience building scalable recommender systems, computer vision solutions, and ML performance optimizations. At Meta he led adoption of two-tower architectures and launched the company’s first model-based retrieval system for people recommendations, bringing low-latency personalization to Instagram’s friending stack. He previously helped create an FDA-cleared AI vision system for thyroid cancer diagnosis and optimized enterprise AI pipelines at Vianai, blending research-grade modeling with production performance work. Trained in mechanical engineering and ML (Cornell, Georgia Tech), he bridges physical-systems thinking with deep learning, and is especially focused on making models faster and more scalable in real-world products.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science - ML, Master of Science - MS Computer Science - ML at Georgia Institute of Technology
Master’s Degree Mechanical Engineering - Robotics/Spaceflight, Master’s Degree Mechanical Engineering - Robotics/Spaceflight at Cornell University
Bachelor’s Degree Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Mechanical Engineering at University of Massachusetts Amherst
French