David Racz
Senior Staff Software Engineer, Tech Lead, Manager at Google DeepMind
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Racz is a Senior Staff Software Engineer and tech leader with 14 years of experience building large-scale machine learning and AI systems, currently leading teams at Google DeepMind from Palo Alto. His career spans applied ML roles across Google Research, Cloud AI, Skype, Microsoft, and Nokia Research, with deep expertise in multimodal representation learning, ranking/recommendation, ambient sensing, and ethical AI. He pairs research-grade innovation—founding Nokia’s Personalized Relevance Team and shipping context-aware platforms—with product-focused delivery of production ML for search, maps, and collaboration features. Experienced as both an individual contributor and manager, he repeatedly translates sensor, geospatial, and behavioral data into robust models and measurement pipelines. Unusually, his background began in biomedical engineering and biosensor systems, giving him a grounded perspective on real-world sensing, safety, and responsible AI deployment.
14 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoM.S. Computer Systems Engineering, M.S. Computer Systems Engineering at Boston UniversityGithub contributions (5)
dracz/perfboard
May 2012 - Jul 2012
Contributions:32 commits in 2 months
dracz/vision
Aug 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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