Dan Turkel
Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Hinge
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Turkel is a Staff Machine Learning Engineer in New York with 13 years of experience building recommendation, personalization, relevance, and search systems. Currently leading recommendations at Hinge, he engineered a user-to-user model deployed globally that drove double-digit improvements in key user outcomes. He combines an academic foundation in mathematics and data science with hands-on production ML experience across ecommerce and consumer products from Rent the Runway to Hinge. Beyond engineering, he volunteers as a technical interview coach and mentor, reflecting a commitment to developing talent and communicating complex ideas clearly. A former journalist and editor by background, he brings uncommon strengths in storytelling and rigorous experimentation to data-driven product work.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Data Science, Master's Degree, Data Science at New York UniversityHorace Greeley High SchoolBachelor’s Degree, English and Mathematics, Bachelor’s Degree, English and Mathematics at Tufts University
Github Skills (200)
htmx10
hyperparameter-optimization10
data-science10
scraper10
filetype10
llm10
touchbar10
python10
menu10
twitter10
feed10
latex10
hyperscript10
lifecycle10
machine-learning10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
daturkel/ayto
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
Are You the One calculator
Contributions:7 releases, 51 commits, 16 PRs in 8 days
calculatorjavascriptreactare-you-the-one
daturkel/advent-of-code
Nov 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:55 commits, 147 pushes, 1 branch in 27 days
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