Michael Kneier
Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Reddit, Inc.
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Kneier is a staff machine learning engineer in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building and shipping high-impact ML systems from research to production. He has led large cross-functional efforts at Twitter to launch purchase optimization and conversion modeling products, driven double-digit metric improvements, and published research on explore/exploit strategies. As an early ML hire at Affirm and Vungle, he designed core modeling libraries and architectures that powered underwriting and ad-serving systems, improving performance metrics by wide margins. More recently he was a founding engineer at a startup before joining Reddit, bringing a blend of research rigor, production-grade engineering, and team leadership. Notably, he has repeatedly owned end-to-end ML stacks—research, infrastructure, and serving—scaling experiments into revenue-driving features.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Statistics, Bachelor's degree Statistics at University of California, Berkeley
Github Skills (8)
statistics9
machine-learning8
python8
data-science7
data-analysis7
scikit-learn6
scikit5
api2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
mkneierV/LendingClubML
Jul 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:26 commits, 19 pushes, 2 branches in 2 days
mkneierV/thinkful_mentoring_ds
May 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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