Nicholas Kridler
Sr Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Goodwater Capital
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolNicholas Kridler is a senior staff machine learning engineer based in San Diego with 15 years of experience building production ML systems across e-commerce, fintech, and games. He has led end-to-end recommendation and ranking initiatives that drove measurable revenue gains—e.g., a 10% increase in apparel orders through search ranking changes—and has deep experience deploying models as microservices and embedding-based personalization. Comfortable across the stack, he’s implemented backend algorithms in Kotlin, built offline evaluation frameworks in Python, and operationalized models on platforms like SageMaker while improving caching and ETL infrastructure. Nicholas has a strong experimental rigor, routinely using variance reduction techniques for A/B testing and pioneering contextual bandits and new engagement metrics at Intuit. His early career in applied mathematics and signal processing informs a methodical approach to feature engineering and anomaly detection, and he’s equally fluent mentoring teams and translating business goals into ML roadmaps. Based in the US, he blends research-minded problem solving with hands-on production delivery and a track record of cost and revenue impact.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
UMBCMaster of Science, Applied Mathematics, Master of Science, Applied Mathematics at University of Colorado Boulder
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Github Skills (8)
flask10
react9
python9
dashboard9
react-components5
scipy1
machine-learning1
data-science1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
nmkridler/SeamCarving
Sep 2011 - Oct 2015
Contributions:2 commits, 1 push in 4 years 2 months
stitchfix/pyxleyJS
Jun 2015 - Mar 2018
Contributions:13 commits, 13 PRs, 36 pushes in 2 years 9 months
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