Dawn Thomas
Engineering Manager at Meta
Menlo Park, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDawn Thomas is an engineering leader with 18 years of experience building and scaling machine learning, AI, and data platforms across tech and finance, now managing engineering at Meta in Menlo Park. Previously she led ML at Redfin, delivering national-scale recommendation and price-estimation systems that processed multimodal property data and served hundreds of millions of users. At American Express she founded enterprise ML capabilities, commercialized data assets, and introduced distributed ML practices used by thousands of practitioners. Dawn combines deep research experience in NLP, semi-supervised learning, and time-series modeling with hands-on production engineering and infrastructure design. A pragmatic builder with entrepreneurial roots from founding a major student entrepreneurship cell at IIT Kharagpur, she blends product-minded leadership with a track record of turning complex research into revenue-generating systems. Colleagues describe her as a strategic operator who bridges research, engineering, and business to deliver impact at scale.
17 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Management, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Management at Indian Institute of Management BangaloreBachelors, Bachelors at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
English, Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam
Github Skills (4)
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Github contributions (5)
mad-ant/ml_explorations
Apr 2021 - Apr 2021
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
mad-ant/CF-NADE
Apr 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
pytorchdeep-learningapproachcollaborative-filteringyin
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