Summary
Federico Tesone is a Principal Engineer based in New York with over 14 years in software engineering and a strong track record building high-availability backend systems and search platforms. He led design and evolution of search, ranking, and experimentation at Grubhub, integrating ML models and real-time signals to improve relevance and performance at scale. Comfortable across Java, Scala, Python and data platforms, he has deep experience with recommender-serving runtimes, low-latency lookups, and operationalizing embedding-based models. His background includes enterprise-grade payments and data-integration projects in the banking sector and teaching software design and quality at the university level, which informs his emphasis on maintainable architecture and measurable outcomes. Now driving search at Daydream, he blends hands-on implementation, cross-team architectural leadership, and mentorship to scale complex systems. He holds an MS in Software Engineering and brings a rare combination of production ML-serving experience and formal software engineering pedagogy.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Software Engineering, Master of Science Software Engineering at Universidad Tecnológica Nacional
English, Spanish