Catalin Tiseanu
Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer (IC7) at Coinbase
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCatalin Tiseanu is a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer with a decade of experience building production ML systems and setting technical direction at scale, most recently as the first ML engineer and tech lead for a 40+ team at Coinbase. He combines deep algorithmic and data-structure expertise with practical ML—designing AutoML-style model blocks for tabular, sequence, and text data (including Transformers from scratch) that drove double-digit lifts in revenue, engagement, and fraud reduction. A proven competitor in elite programming contests (TCO Marathon winner 2021, Code Jam finalist) and author of theoretical CS papers, he bridges research-grade rigor with product impact. His background spans founding roles and big-data systems at startups and enterprises (Alien Labs, Bitdefender) and internships at Google, Facebook, and Twitter, and he built a real-time electoral turnout map used by over 1% of Romanian voters. Based in San Francisco, he focuses on ML + crypto use cases and responsible-AI practices such as model cards, blending hands-on engineering with strategic leadership.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Research Master Computer Science, Research Master Computer Science at University of MarylandMasters Computer Science, Masters Computer Science at University of Bucharest
English, Romanian, German, Spanish
Github Skills (2)
javascript3
rom2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
CatalinTiseanu/spoken-language-identification
Nov 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:8 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 25 days
CatalinTiseanu/catalintiseanu.github.io
Oct 2017 - Jul 2020
GitHub IO Page for Catalin Tiseanu
Contributions:26 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
github-io-pagejavascript
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