Kevin Liao
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Pinterest
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Liao is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer in San Francisco with nine years of experience applying NLP, information retrieval, and recommendation systems to consumer-facing and ad products. He has led R&D to integrate LLMs and reinforcement learning into full-stack marketing platforms, delivering a 10x efficiency gain in ad creation and measurable engagement lifts via KNN and multi-armed bandit methods. His background spans search ranking, scalable text-processing pipelines (k8s, Argo, EMR/Spark), and production ML at scale from ideation to deployment. Kevin co-founded a health-focused startup that shipped an on-device YOLO/coreML model and built tools that empowered editorial SEO and keyword research across thousands of domains. He holds an MS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech and a BA in Math & Statistics from UC Berkeley, and shares technical write-ups and code on Medium and GitHub documenting applied ML and infrastructure work.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Mathematics and Statistics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Mathematics and Statistics at University of California, BerkeleyMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
Github Skills (27)
kaggle10
spark10
recommendation-system10
data-science10
machine-learning10
api10
updating10
natural-language-processing10
data-visualization10
nlp10
classification9
sequential8
deep-learning8
hyperparameters8
optuna8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
KevinLiao159/MyDataSciencePortfolio
Sep 2018 - Jul 2020
Applying Data Science and Machine Learning to Solve Real World Business Problems
Contributions:92 commits, 78 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
data-sciencemachine-learningnlpapirecommendation-system
KevinLiao159/TalkingData
May 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:31 commits, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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