Gordon Rios
Founding Scientist at Venture-funded stealth AI company
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolGordon Rios is a founding scientist and seasoned AI/ML leader with 17 years of experience building large-scale relevance, personalization, and recommendation systems across consumer platforms from Airbnb and Tripadvisor to Lyft and Pandora. He blends applied research and ML engineering—deep learning in PyTorch, causal methods, and data engineering—to move models from experimentation into production at scale. A director-level individual contributor and mentor, he has repeatedly led technical teams, founded data science groups, and advised startups on scalable search and analytics (including early work on Hypertable and local search at Zvents). His background spans academic rigor (MS from UC Berkeley) and practical innovation, with roots in probabilistic modeling, multi-armed bandits, and game-AI programming, reflecting a rare mix of research, product impact, and hands-on engineering. Notably, he continues to explore novel AI applications in stealth startup work while maintaining a long track record of elevating science into production features that drive user engagement.
17 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
M.S. Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, M.S. Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at University of California, BerkeleyMBA Computational Finance Management Science, MBA Computational Finance Management Science at University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of BusinessAssociate of Arts and Sciences - AAS Intelligence and Imagery Analysis, Associate of Arts and Sciences - AAS Intelligence and Imagery Analysis at Community College of the Air ForceB.S. Business Mathematics Computer Technologies, B.S. Business Mathematics Computer Technologies at University of Maryland Global CampusNon-degree International Economics, Non-degree International Economics at Georgetown University
English, spanish (light familiarity), russian (light familiarity)
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Github Skills (12)
sql-server6
label6
macos6
sql6
python6
database6
r6
ruby-on-rails6
environmental5
api3
machine-learning1
vowpal-wabbit1
Github contributions (2)
gparker/emergy
Sep 2011 - Apr 2012
Contributions:35 commits in 7 months
apipythonluxembourgenvironmentaltechnologies
gparker/vowpal_wabbit
Apr 2009 - Jul 2009
Contributions:11 commits in 2 months
wabbitmachine-learningonline-learningvowpal-wabbitlearning-algorithm
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