Ciaran Beckford
Software Engineer at Gap Inc.
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCiaran Beckford is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience, focused on applying multilingual NLP and generative AI to real-world data problems at Gap Inc. A Columbia College and Columbia Engineering graduate with study-abroad experience at Peking University, he blends rigorous academic training in NLP with practical ML feature engineering and production experience. Based in San Francisco, he drives internal GenAI initiatives that support the Data organization, bridging research ideas and scalable engineering. Fluent in Mandarin study and passionate about language learning, he’s especially intrigued by how AI agents can accelerate multilingual education—an angle he actively brings to product-focused AI work.
10 years of coding experience
Study Abroad, Intermediate Chinese, Study Abroad, Intermediate Chinese at Peking UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Columbia EngineeringShady Side AcademyBachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science, East Asian Studies, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science, East Asian Studies at Columbia College, Columbia University
ChineseProgramming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
CiaranBeckford/re-fresh
Nov 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:27 commits, 10 PRs, 20 pushes in 1 month
CiaranBeckford/tabLe
Mar 2020 - May 2020
Contributions:27 pushes, 5 branches in 1 month
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