Summary
Matias Leone is a Director of Artificial Intelligence based in New York with 13+ years leading and building production ML systems that power search, recommendations, personalization and ads. He bridges data science and engineering as a hands-on leader who has architected end-to-end inference platforms, feature stores, and distributed GPU training pipelines at companies from Grubhub and Meta to Rokt and Daydream. His background spans deep learning (transformers, two-tower models), big data (Spark, Hadoop, Kafka), and cloud-native deployment (AWS, Snowflake), enabling him to operationalize research into reliable, scalable services. He’s also taught real-time graphics and built a 3D engine early in his career, reflecting a low-level systems fluency that informs his performance-minded architecture decisions. Matias combines technical depth in algorithms and distributed systems with proven team-building and cross-functional product delivery.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Software Engineering, Master's Degree Software Engineering at Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina 'Santa María de los Buenos Aires'
Bachelor of Science (BS) System Engineer, Bachelor of Science (BS) System Engineer at Universidad Tecnológica Nacional
English, Spanish