Niles Christensen
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Apple
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolNiles Christensen is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer based in the Bay Area with 11 years of experience bridging academic research and production systems. A Carnegie Mellon ML master’s graduate, he has shipped ML solutions at Apple and contributed to high-impact projects at Alphabet’s Loon and Google Ads, with a strong focus on computer vision and geometry-aware models for 3D reasoning. His background includes building reinforcement learning systems for real-world control, SLAM-style egomotion estimation from research, and pragmatic engineering in Go, Python, and production stacks. Comfortable moving between prototype research and scalable deployment, he’s both a quick learner and a practitioner who enjoys turning complex simulations and novel models into reliable systems.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Menlo High SchoolBachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Columbia UniversityMaster's degree Machine Learning, Master's degree Machine Learning at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Danish, French, Spanish
Github Skills (14)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Socialsquare/RunningCause
Jan 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:224 commits in 3 months
pythondjangocauserunnerspython3
nilesc/resume
Nov 2020 - Jan 2021
Contributions:5 pushes in 1 month
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