David Golland
Senior Staff Software Engineer (Machine Learning) at LinkedIn
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Golland is a Senior Staff Software Engineer specializing in machine learning with 12 years of experience building production ML systems at LinkedIn. He progressed through engineering roles at LinkedIn since 2015, blending research-driven thinking from a PhD in AI at UC Berkeley with hands-on software delivery. His background includes startup R&D at Prismatic! and internships at Google and Palantir, giving him a strong mix of applied research and product engineering. An active backend contributor to open-source—enhancing the plumatic/schema Clojure library with practical coercion and validation features—he focuses on robust data schemas and reliable model-data interfaces. Based in Pittsburgh, he brings both deep technical rigor and pragmatic feature delivery to large-scale ML infrastructure challenges. Colleagues describe him as someone who translates complex AI research into maintainable, production-ready systems.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Artificial Intelligence at University of California, BerkeleyBergen County AcademiesBachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science (minor: Linguistics), Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science (minor: Linguistics) at Cornell University
Github Skills (5)
clojure10
schema-validation10
clojure-cli10
unit-testing9
generator8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
plumatic/schema
Jun 2013 - Aug 2015
Clojure(Script) library for declarative data description and validation
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 12 PRs, 6 pushes in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:David focused on enhancing the `plumatic/schema` library, primarily by implementing features to improve data coercion and validation. Their contributions included adding support for coercing boolean values and introducing `cond-pre` to replace the deprecated `either` function for constructing conditional schemas. They also added support for generating dates and primitive arrays.
validationdeclarativeschema-validationclojurescriptclojure-spec
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