Phil Yeres
Software Engineer at Reddit, Inc.
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolPhil Yeres is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building ML platforms and model-serving systems across major tech companies, currently driving ML platform work at Reddit. He has built production-focused AI infrastructure at TikTok and Apple and contributed research-grade systems for LLM fine-tuning and evaluation at NYU. His background includes hands-on work in model interpretability at NVIDIA and practical NLP toolkit improvements—adding ANLI tasks and gradient accumulation—to the widely used jiant repository. Based in Seattle, he blends research sensibilities with production engineering, shipping scalable training and serving pipelines. Colleagues describe him as someone who moves fluidly between low-level trainer refactors and large-scale deployment concerns, making models more reproducible and maintainable in real-world systems.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
New York UniversitySwarthmore College
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (9)
transformers10
pytorch10
nlp10
multi-task-learning10
python10
bert9
machine-learning9
data-preprocessing9
transfer-learning8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
nyu-mll/jiant
Nov 2019 - Aug 2020
jiant is an nlp toolkit
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
ML EngineerContributions:4 releases, 88 commits, 64 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Phil primarily contributed to the development of the `jiant` NLP toolkit, adding new tasks related to Adversarial Natural Language Inference (ANLI) and improving the training process. They implemented gradient accumulation as an option for the trainer, enhancing the model training capabilities. Additionally, the user refactored and cleaned up code in the trainer and pre-processing modules, which would contribute to the overall maintainability and usability of the toolkit.
nlptransformersmultitask-learningsentence-representationbert
pyeres/pix2pix-pytorch
Apr 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:56 pushes in 9 days
pytorchdeep-learningadversarialconditionaltranslation
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