Jerome Paliakkara
Software Engineer at Snap Inc.
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJerome Paliakkara is a software engineer with nine years of experience building data-driven systems and developer tools, currently focused on Content Infrastructure at Snap after contributing to Stripe’s engineering efforts. He has a strong machine-learning and data systems background from internships at Pinterest and Uplevel, where he shipped Bayesian optimization tooling, large-scale data migrations, and ML models that materially improved product metrics. Jerome moves fluidly between front-end and back-end work—having optimized UI latency, built end-to-end search features, and automated developer workflows to save significant time. A UW master's graduate who has taught core CS courses, he blends practical production experience with a knack for developer productivity improvements that reduce toil and accelerate teams.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at University of Washington
Github Skills (22)
alexa-skills-kit8
chrome-extension7
word-segmentation7
tokenizer7
boilerplate6
chrome6
logic6
sdk6
natural-language-processing6
text-based6
neural-machine-translation6
nlp5
nodejs5
natural-language-generation5
text-generation4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jerome9189/save-the-trees
Mar 2018 - Dec 2018
Web-app which motivates people to save trees using positive reinforcement of nature-friendly activites
Contributions:30 commits, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
reinforcement-learningnaturereinforcementtrees
jerome9189/uw-schedule-exporter
Aug 2019 - Jun 2022
Chrome extension to export schedule from UW registration page to a .ics file
Contributions:1 review, 16 commits, 7 PRs in 2 years 10 months
registration-pageexporticsregistrationchrome
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