Eryk Helenowski
Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Meta
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolEryk Helenowski is a Staff Machine Learning Engineer in Chicago with a decade of experience building and scaling ML systems at Meta and Instagram, including personalization for over a billion users and recent work in generative AI. A UIUC computer science alum, he combines production-grade engineering (cloud, data pipelines, REST APIs) with deep ML research experience in adversarial and sentiment models. Eryk is a self-described perfectionist who drives projects from prototype to impact, having architected resilient data ingestion frameworks for high-volume markets and improved feed ranking at massive scale. He blends pragmatic product focus with rigorous technical depth, comfortable moving between model development, distributed systems, and operational reliability. An implicit strength is his knack for consolidating messy, heterogeneous data sources into combinable datasets that unlock downstream ML value.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Glenbrook South High SchoolUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Spanish
Github Skills (23)
raspberry5
raspberry-pi3
cluster-computing3
historical2
exchange2
finance1
python1
tradingview1
coinbase-api1
trading-bot1
market-maker1
notebook1
trading1
jupyter1
kucoin1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ehelenowski/exercism_solutions
Apr 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
ehelenowski/CSC241_JavaDataStructures
Jun 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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