Jonathan Elsas
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJonathan Elsas is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 17 years of experience and 12+ years as a technical leader at Google, where he has progressed from software engineer and tech lead to building and managing a 40-person team in Google Shopping. He specializes in applied machine learning, large language models, human-in-the-loop systems, taxonomy and knowledge representation, and has deep expertise in designing large-scale training, evaluation, and experiment pipelines. Jonathan holds a PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon and a track record of publishing ML/NLP research on conversational and structured-document retrieval, bringing rigorous research methods to production problems. Based in Pittsburgh, he blends hands-on engineering, people leadership, and product-focused experimentation to turn complex information-retrieval problems into scalable commercial systems. An unspoken strength is his sustained ability to navigate both academic research and product delivery at Google, making him effective at bridging novel algorithms and operational constraints.
17 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Mathematics, BA, Mathematics at Carleton CollegePhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon UniversityMSIS, Information Science, MSIS, Information Science at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Github Skills (9)
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twitter-api4
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
jelsas/JavaItertools
Mar 2010 - May 2011
Contributions:58 commits in 1 year 1 month
jelsas/StreamCalc
Dec 2010 - May 2011
Contributions:17 commits in 5 months
calculatorpythonpython3stream
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