Paul Krakow
Director Of Product For Shorts Discovery at YouTube
Belmont, California, United States
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Top SchoolPaul Krakow is a product management executive with 14 years of experience building personalization and discovery systems for consumer platforms, currently leading Product for Shorts Discovery at YouTube. He has a strong track record scaling ML-driven personalization teams and products across global organizations—most recently democratizing machine learning at Amazon Music and growing programmatic demand at Yahoo by 300%. Paul blends deep technical grounding from an engineering education with hands-on product delivery across video, ads, and cloud platforms, having launched large-scale recommender systems that drove billions of monthly page views. He’s skilled at turning prototypes into new lines of business and at integrating acquisitions quickly into production—an example being the rapid Summly integration at Yahoo. Based in Belmont, California, he pairs outcome-focused product strategy with experience managing distributed teams across Berlin, San Francisco, and Seattle.
14 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BE, Electrical Engineering, BE, Electrical Engineering at Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth CollegeAB, Engineering Sciences, AB, Engineering Sciences at Dartmouth CollegeAcalanes High School
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Github Skills (40)
arduino-uno9
arduino-library8
dfu7
sdk7
microchip7
mercurial6
arduino6
parse6
amazon6
makers6
git6
aws5
avr5
qmk-firmware5
ios5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
pkrakow/MCP466_DigitalPot
Feb 2012 - Dec 2020
This is an Arduino library (and example code) for the MCP466X line of digital potentiometers from Microchip Technology.
Contributions:2 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 8 years 11 months
makersavrarduino-unoarduino-libraryarduino
pkrakow/Simply-Good-Habits
Dec 2020 - Jun 2023
Contributions:30 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
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