Jaewon Yang
Principal Machine Learning Engineer at Pinterest
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolJaewon Yang is a Principal Machine Learning Engineer in San Francisco with nine years of experience building and deploying production-scale AI across search, recommendation, NLP, knowledge graphs and social products. He combines award-winning research (PhD-level training from Stanford) with hands-on technical leadership, having led company-wide AI strategy and delivered double-digit engagement gains at Nextdoor and LinkedIn. At LinkedIn he helped create a knowledge graph covering hundreds of millions of members and jobs and drove GNN and multilingual NLP initiatives that scaled across global products; at Nextdoor he spearheaded generative AI adoption and cross-org optimization programs. Now at Pinterest he sets the technical roadmap for representation learning, RL and visual-language models to improve personalized experiences. He is notable for bridging deep research (10+ top-tier papers) with product impact and for growing ML organizations from small teams into large, operational groups.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Electrical Engineering at Seoul National UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Electrical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Electrical Engineering at Stanford University
English, Korean
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Github Skills (17)
cryptanalysis10
public-key-cryptography10
translation9
python9
internationalization9
cryptography9
cldr9
localization9
ruby8
trust7
dart6
flutter6
architecture6
android4
zero-trust4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
MuchToKnow/Trash-Cam
Jan 2018 - Jan 2018
Contributions:29 commits in 1 day
jeffjyang/click-game
Aug 2017 - Jun 2019
Contributions:29 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 10 months
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