Jeff Picard
Software Engineer at ZipRecruiter
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJeff Picard is a software engineer with 13 years of experience building data-driven systems and ML pipelines, currently contributing to jobseeker data at ZipRecruiter from Palo Alto. His background spans applied ML and data engineering—relevance scoring, NER, automated labeling, and high-throughput inference—delivered with Spark, Elasticsearch, Airflow and AWS in production. He’s worked on geolocation and ad-recommendation problems at scale and has experience building APIs and CI/CD for healthcare and enterprise use cases. An early contributor to decentralized content tooling, he modified core protobuf and schema code in the LBRY SDK, reflecting a comfort with low-level data modeling as well as large-scale analytics. Trained as a physicist at Caltech, he combines rigorous quantitative thinking with pragmatic software engineering across Python, JVM stacks, and occasional C++/Unity projects.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
California Institute of Technology
Github Skills (9)
python10
protobuffer10
protobuf10
protocol-buffers10
blockchain9
apidoc9
api9
decentralization8
cryptocurrency8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
lbryio/lbry-sdk
May 2021 - Apr 2022
The LBRY SDK for building decentralized, censorship resistant, monetized digital content apps.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 47 commits, 9 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Jeff primarily focused on updating and refactoring the code related to the LBRY SDK, particularly concerning field updates and protobuf definitions. Their contributions involved modifying Python files within the `lbry/schema/types/v2` directory and included changes to the `hub_pb2.py` file, suggesting work on data structures and API definitions. These updates likely impact how data is structured, processed, and transmitted within the SDK, which influences the overall functionality of decentralized content applications.
pythondhtprotocolp2pbittorrent
lothropgauss/medieval-europe
Oct 2019 - Mar 2022
Official repo of the web based game medieval-europe.eu
Contributions:27 reviews, 105 commits, 44 PRs in 2 years 5 months
gamemedievalweb-basedweb-based-gamemedieval-game
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