Summary
Krysta Bouzek is a Principal Software Engineer and data scientist with 11 years of experience building production-ready, data-driven systems across Microsoft, Rakuten, AI2, and enterprise platforms. She specializes in turning ambiguous problems into turnkey solutions—shipping ML models, distributed pipelines, and scalable storage/search systems from prototype to production. Her technical breadth spans Python, C, C#, Java, BigQuery/Beam, HBase, and C++ search stacks, with notable work in category classification, locality-sensitive hashing, and prediction models. Krysta thrives with autonomy and pragmatic structure-building, preferring collaborative teams that value humor and shared ownership. A long-time Linux user, she blends deep engineering discipline with a data scientist’s probabilistic thinking to solve messy real-world data problems.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Applied Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Stout