Colin Young
Machine Learning Engineer at TikTok
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolColin Young is a Machine Learning Engineer with 15 years of software and research experience, currently building foundation video models at TikTok after recent roles in generative vision at Hive and Meta. He blends academic rigor—publishing and accelerating phylogenetic and viral epidemiology workflows—with practical ML engineering, having improved CNNs with transformers to boost recall in analytical chemistry tasks. His background spans end-to-end systems from distributed image-retrieval benchmarking and Prime Video search prototypes to GPU-accelerated phylogenetic kernels that cut runtime dramatically. An active contributor to open-source tooling, he’s fixed subtle S3 integration and URL bugs in widely used Ruby gems, reflecting attention to production robustness. Based in San Francisco and trained at UC San Diego, he excels at translating cutting-edge research into scalable production models for complex multimodal data.
15 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Westview High SchoolUniversity of California, San Diego
Github Skills (8)
aws-s310
configuration-management10
amazon-s310
carrierwave10
s3-bucket10
ruby10
testing9
version-control9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
dwilkie/carrierwave_direct
Feb 2013 - Apr 2013
Process your uploads in the background by uploading directly to S3
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Colin primarily focused on improving the `carrierwave_direct` gem by adding and configuring a new option, `will_include_content_type`, for better compatibility with S3. They modified the uploader and configuration files to accommodate this feature, which addressed issues related to content type handling and S3 integration. Furthermore, they corrected a bug that caused double-slashes in generated URLs, preventing access to files and improved versioning.
aws-s3awsuploadingbackground
colinyoung/wp-api
Sep 2014 - Feb 2017
Contributions:36 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 2 years 5 months
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