Dor Amir
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Amazon
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDor Amir is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer in New York with 11 years of experience building production ML systems, currently shaping personalization and relevance for Amazon Alexa Shopping. His background spans data science leadership at Guesty—where he led chatbot and message-tagging NLP projects—and R&D work on recommender systems at Fiverr. He combines deep learning (BERT, DeepFM), tree-based models (XGBoost), and end-to-end deployment experience to move research ideas into production at scale. A Ben-Gurion MSc in AI and decision making and prior university teaching highlight his research-first approach and mentorship mindset. Outside of work he writes about ML and engineering on Medium and freelances as a consultant, showing a sustained appetite for learning and practical problem-solving.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) software and information system engineering AI and Group Decision Making Magna cum, Master of Science (MSc) software and information system engineering AI and Group Decision Making Magna cum at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
English, Hebrew
Github Skills (42)
rack-middleware9
gensim8
rack8
google-search8
corpus8
windows-phone8
fasttext8
webpush8
topic-modeling8
notification-service8
word2vec8
stackoverflow7
latent-dirichlet-allocation7
wns7
lda7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
DCookieMonster/IncentiveServer
Dec 2014 - May 2015
Contributions:22 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
DCookieMonster/Planner_Nodejs
May 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:44 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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