Eric Breck is a Staff Software Engineer based in Cambridge, MA with a decade of industry experience and a strong academic foundation (PhD in Computer Science from Cornell) bridging machine learning, NLP, and AI. He has alternated between research and production roles—from assistant professor to long tenures at Google and Verily—shaping systems that move cutting-edge language research into real-world products. Comfortable both mentoring teams and writing production-grade code, he focuses on scalable, reliable ML-driven services and has experience across health-tech and large-scale search/AI platforms. His background in mathematics and linguistics gives him an edge in modeling language phenomena, and his career path reflects a rare blend of academic rigor and product-focused engineering.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BS Mathematics and Linguistics, BS Mathematics and Linguistics at University of Michigan
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at Cornell University
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