James Kunz
Director, Software Engineering at Google
Los Altos, California, United States
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Top SchoolJames Kunz is a seasoned engineering leader and machine learning practitioner with 11+ years at Google, currently directing software engineering efforts in Search where his teams deploy ML and GenAI systems that impact billions of users. He combines deep expertise in information retrieval, recommendation and ranking systems, and large-scale ML infrastructure with hands-on experience across back-end stacks and toy projects from iOS to AppEngine. James also bridges industry and academia as a UC Berkeley lecturer who relaunched an NLP with Deep Learning course to incorporate modern transformer architectures. Known for growth-focused product impact (including organizing Daily Listen) and program committee work for KDD/NAACL, he pairs rigorous research-minded thinking with pragmatic production delivery. Based in Los Altos, he holds graduate AI training from Stanford and started his career owning search stacks at OpenText, giving him rare breadth from systems to generative models.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Honours Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Computer Engineering, Honours Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Computer Engineering at University of WaterlooMS Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence), MS Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence) at Stanford University
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Github Skills (15)
html6
justify6
javascript6
parsing6
xslt6
create-element6
applet6
todolist1
swift1
ios1
db21
sql1
mysql1
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
kunzmainali/ColorCognition
Sep 2014 - Jan 2015
Contributions:16 commits, 6 pushes in 3 months
kunzmainali/Whale
Jan 2015 - Jan 2015
Contributions:45 commits, 44 pushes in 8 days
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