Senior Software Engineer, Machine Learning at Salesforce
San Francisco, California, United States
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Ode Bodnar is a Senior Software Engineer specializing in machine learning with 13 years of experience building and deploying NLP, recommendation, and deep learning systems at scale. Based in San Francisco, he blends data science rigor with production-grade software engineering—evident from driving real-time recommendations for 10+ million daily users at a seed-stage startup and now applying those skills at Salesforce. His background includes a Ph.D. in Biology and work that scaled research data pipelines by ~5400x, yielding faster queries and lower costs while enabling multiple publications. Ode has a track record of turning research into production: rebuilding critical backends under tight deadlines, improving prediction accuracy in defense settings, and mentoring junior engineers. He is a hybrid data scientist-developer who thrives at the intersection of experimentation, systems engineering, and product impact. A not-obvious strength is his ability to compress complex research tooling into reliable, cost-effective cloud infrastructure that directly supports business-facing ML features.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Complex Systems Summer School, Complex Systems Summer School at Santa Fe Institute
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Biology, 3.97, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Biology, 3.97 at Penn State University
Contributions:17 commits, 2 pushes in 2 years 3 months
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Ode Bodnar - Senior Software Engineer, Machine Learning at Salesforce