Daniel Preda
Software Engineer
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Preda is a software engineer and machine learning specialist with a PhD in Computer Science from UC Berkeley and over a decade of experience building and optimizing large-scale ML systems for advertising and real-time bidding. He has driven model training, feature engineering, optimization, and A/B testing at Twitter and led cross-functional ML efforts at startups and scale-ups like CrossInstall and Quantcast, where he advanced from individual contributor to team lead and filed a patent. Comfortable in production engineering, he has focused on high-throughput bidder systems and practical solutions that directly impact revenue and user experience. An active backend contributor to open-source projects such as the Red-DiscordBot, he blends rigorous academic training with hands-on coding, documentation, and i18n improvements. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Daniel is known for turning complex research into deployable systems and for thriving at the intersection of data science and software engineering.
7 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Physics at MITPhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at UC Berkeley
Github Skills (14)
googlebot10
i18n-js10
audio10
command-line-interface10
command-line-tool10
bots10
ember-i18n10
rails-i18n10
python10
discord-bot10
command-line10
chatbot9
modularity8
modular8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Cog-Creators/Red-DiscordBot
Feb 2019 - Dec 2022
A multi-function Discord bot
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:26 reviews, 52 commits, 78 PRs in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily contributed to the core functionality of the Red Discord Bot, making various improvements and fixing bugs related to command handling, audio features, and i18n support. They implemented changes to core commands, help formatting, and event handling, ensuring message deletion and cooldown messages were correctly managed. Furthermore, they focused on refining audio commands and incorporating enhancements to improve the bot's overall functionality and user experience. Additionally, the user updated documentation and fixed missing internationalization strings throughout the codebase.
discord-jsdiscordbotdiscord-botmodular
PredaaA/Colts-Cogs
Apr 2020 - Jan 2022
Contributions:3 reviews, 4 PRs, 24 pushes in 1 year 9 months
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