Nissan Pow
Senior Software Engineer at Netflix
Los Gatos, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNissan Pow is a Senior Software Engineer with 15 years of experience building large-scale ML and data infrastructure across Netflix, Amazon, FAIR, Thomson Reuters, and Bloomberg. He blends deep learning and NLP research with production engineering—having moved from research roles at Mila and Facebook AI into high-impact ML product work like Prime Video ranking and Netflix ML infrastructure. His background includes designing petabyte-scale data pipelines, real-time financial analytics, and recommender systems, reflecting a rare fluency across research, data engineering, and production ML. Based in Los Gatos, he pairs rigorous academic training from Waterloo and McGill with practical system design, and has repeatedly translated knowledge-graph and relation-extraction research into deployed features. Notably, he has experience shipping core search and ingestion platforms as well as ML models that directly influence user-facing ranking and personalization.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science at McGill UniversityMathematik und Informatik, Mathematik und Informatik at University of MannheimBMath Computer Science, BMath Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Chinese
Github Skills (200)
language-model10
python10
word-segmentation10
model-management10
cost-optimization10
gcp10
mlops10
deep-learning10
pydantic10
distributed-training10
chatgpt10
ml10
llmops10
ai10
generative-ai10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
npow/centris
Nov 2014 - Jan 2015
Predict real-estate prices in Montreal
Contributions:129 commits, 1 push, 2 comments in 2 months
npow/ubottu
Mar 2015 - Jan 2018
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Contributions:150 commits, 2 PRs, 55 pushes in 2 years 10 months
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