Kyriaki Zafeiroudi-pierson
Lead Software Engineer at Optum
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKyriaki Zafeiroudi-Pierson is a Lead Software Engineer with a decade of experience building NLP-driven products and leading engineering teams at Optum from individual contributor to lead. She combines a strong academic foundation—a MS in Computer Science from Penn State and an earlier joint BSc/MSc from NTUA—with hands-on experience shipping full-stack and mobile features during an early internship, and contributing to research programs focused on semantic parsing. At Optum she progressed through software engineering roles specializing in natural language processing, translating research-grade models into production services that support enterprise healthcare needs. Comfortable teaching and mentoring large cohorts (she supported 450+ students as a TA), she blends technical leadership with clear communication and a knack for organizing collaborative research and learning events. Based in San Francisco, she brings both applied research experience and product-focused engineering discipline to complex AI systems.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 3.7/4.0, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 3.7/4.0 at Penn State UniversityBSc & MSc in Electrical & Computer Engineering (5-year joint degree; 300 ECTS), Major: Computer Systems, Computer Software; Minor: Signals, Automatic Control and Robotics, 8.32/10, BSc & MSc in Electrical & Computer Engineering (5-year joint degree; 300 ECTS), Major: Computer Systems, Computer Software; Minor: Signals, Automatic Control and Robotics, 8.32/10 at National Technical University of Athens
English, Greek, French, German
Github Skills (14)
parser4
dialogue-systems4
semantic4
semantic-parsing4
argparse3
language-processing3
natural-language-processing2
machine-learning2
nlp2
reinforcement-learning2
deep-learning2
python1
transfer-learning1
tensorflow1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
kzafeiroudi/QuestRecommend
Apr 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 4 days
q-kZaf/hello-world
Feb 2016 - Feb 2016
Contributions:4 PRs, 3 pushes, 5 branches in 1 day
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