Summary
Brendon Villalobos is a Staff Machine Learning Engineer with 11 years of experience building end-to-end ML systems, currently leading Search & Personalization at Warner Bros. Discovery. He specializes in practical deep learning on-device, transfer learning for NLP, and shepherding projects from research question to production at scale. Previously he held senior and technical lead roles at Wayfair and Twilio, applying ML across connected data products and consumer-facing systems. Trained at Columbia (MS Data Science, BA Statistics), he blends rigorous statistical foundations with product-minded engineering. Beyond models, he’s known for working across the full data science pipeline—data plumbing, modeling, and presentation—and for bringing research ideas into deployable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Data Science, Master of Science - MS Data Science at Columbia University