Claire Keum
Senior Software Engineer at Spotify
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolClaire Keum is a Senior Software Engineer based in the New York City area with 11 years of experience, the last four focused on production ML for recommendation systems at Spotify. She specializes at the intersection of backend engineering, ML infrastructure, and data systems, delivering scalable real-time music recommendations and leading cross-functional ML product initiatives. Notably, she architected a transfer learning–based solution that cut compute costs by $2M while preserving recommendation quality and co-authored a RecSys 2025 paper on generalized user representations. Comfortable moving research to production, she combines deep technical ownership with systems-level thinking to optimize cost, latency, and model scalability.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Hankuk Academy of Foreign StudiesBachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Electrical and Computer Engineering at Franklin W. Olin College of EngineeringDelft University of Technology
Github Skills (24)
hub9
postgresql-database9
docker9
gradle9
gradle-kotlin-dsl9
gradle-plugin8
docker-image8
packaging7
docker-build7
orchestration6
groovy6
postgresql6
pkix5
ssl-certificate5
cfssl5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
aclairekeum/comprobo15
Sep 2015 - Jan 2018
Contributions:16 pushes in 2 years 4 months
roboticsfallcomputationalolin
blackducksoftware/blackduck-nginx
Dec 2018 - Mar 2019
Black Duck implementation of nginx image for use with Black Duck application.
Contributions:13 PRs, 11 pushes, 13 branches in 3 months
nginxducknginx-imagedocker
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