Nick Mckillip
Machine Learning Engineer, Core Ads Serving at Netflix
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolNick Mckillip is a machine learning engineer with eight years of experience building scalable ads and infrastructure systems, currently focused on core ads serving at Netflix after stints at Reddit, Google, and Striveworks. He has deep SRE and ML chops—shaping YouTube automated bidding and cold-start solutions with deep uncertainty models, Bayesian calibration, and explore/exploit bidding strategies. Comfortable across distributed systems, production ML, and perception, he led perception work at Texas A&M and moved quickly from SRE foundations at Google Borg to research-driven ad optimization. Based in Austin, he combines practical engineering rigor with research-fluent approaches to uncertainty and auction prediction, making him adept at turning complex probabilistic models into reliable production services.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University
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Github Skills (18)
machine-learning-models9
seldon-core9
lightgbm9
python8
deep-learning8
mlflow8
scikit-learn8
gpu8
machine-learning8
xgboost8
inference7
neural-network6
tensorflow6
numpy5
gpu-acceleration3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
josiahcoad/PersonReIdentification
Sep 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:23 commits in 2 months
NickMcKillip/llm.c
Apr 2024 - Apr 2024
LLM training in simple, raw C/CUDA
Contributions:9 pushes, 2 branches in 6 days
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