Kemal K
Principal Machine Learning Engineer at TeachFX
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolKemal K is a Principal Machine Learning Engineer based in Mountain View with 10 years of hands-on experience building production ML systems for real-world, noisy data. He leads ML strategy and execution at TeachFX, improving model accuracy and platform reliability while scaling pipelines to handle 500+ classroom audio recordings per day and cutting operational costs by 31%. Comfortable switching between research and engineering, he has delivered improvements across speech, NLP/NLU, LLM workflows, MLOps, and backend infrastructure—raising F1 for domain-specific detection from 65.2 to 81.7 and reducing incident response p90 from 79.5 to 18.4 minutes. His background includes EU-funded social media monitoring, churn prediction and news-ranking NLP projects, and industrial time-series forecasting, underpinned by an MSCS from UC San Diego and a knack for building human-in-the-loop, semi-supervised ML pipelines. Notably, he combines competitive programming and webdev interests with practical product focus, frequently translating research ideas into features widely adopted by educators.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Üsküdar Amerikan Lisesi / Üsküdar American AcademyBachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering at Boğaziçi UniversityUniversity of California, San DiegoBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at UC Santa BarbaraComputer Science, Computer Science at Stanford University
English, German, Turkish
Github Skills (18)
twitter10
concert10
twitter-api10
python8
storage4
aws4
command-line-tool4
bayesian3
generative3
cloud-storage3
google-cloud3
cli3
gcp3
machine-learning2
pytorch2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
berk94/berk94
Dec 2020 - Apr 2024
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
berk94/bae-backend
Feb 2018 - Feb 2018
Contributions:13 PRs, 26 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
pythonhackathon-2018
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