Mohamed Sordo
Principal Scientist at Pandora
Miami, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolMohamed Sordo is a Principal Scientist with 13 years of experience applying machine learning, NLP, information retrieval and complex networks to music and media personalization. Based in Miami, he leads personalization at Pandora—designing For You experiences, personalized playlists and end-of-year retrospectives—and has repeatedly taken ideas from hackathon prototypes to production products. His background blends a PhD in Computer Science with academic postdoc work in music technology, giving him deep expertise in semantic metadata, knowledge-based recommenders and large-scale data pipelines. He is comfortable spanning research and engineering, having implemented Scala/Spark and front-end tools (AngularJS) to ship cross-functional solutions. Notably, he led catalog and metadata strategy that underpins search, voice and podcast initiatives, reflecting both domain depth and product impact.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Information Communication and Audiovisual Media Technologies, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Information Communication and Audiovisual Media Technologies at Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Arabic, Spanish, English, French, Catalan, Portuguese
Github Skills (24)
dtw9
audio9
music9
librosa9
pitch8
transliteration8
scipy7
spanish7
stopwords7
phonetics7
python7
french7
wordnet6
arabic6
browser6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Bohdan-Khomtchouk/geneSpark
Jun 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:20 commits, 18 pushes in 1 day
neomoha/python-lsi-similarity
Oct 2014 - Oct 2014
Contributions:7 commits in 1 day
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