Roberto Konow
Senior Manager Machine Learning at Pinterest
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRoberto Konow is a senior machine learning leader with a Ph.D. in Computer Science and over a decade of industry experience building search, query understanding, and multimodal AI systems. He currently leads Query Understanding and Query Recommendations at Pinterest Search, overseeing retrieval, ranking, blending and four teams of ~30 engineers. Previously he shaped search and content-understanding efforts at Apple, eBay and Twitter, delivering large-scale NLP, visual search and knowledge-graph solutions that improved user engagement and product metrics. His background blends rigorous academic research — evidenced by a long Ph.D. track record and visiting research at Waterloo — with pragmatic production engineering, from C++ search optimizers to LLM-driven natural language search. Known for building teams and end-to-end systems from scratch, he combines strategic vision with hands-on technical leadership across multimodal and vector-search domains.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at Universidad de ChileMaster's Degree Computer Science, Master's Degree Computer Science at Universidad Diego Portales
English, Spanish, German
Github Skills (5)
data-structure7
data-structures6
java6
cpp5
monitor1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
rkonow/sdsl-lite
Nov 2014 - Feb 2015
Contributions:29 commits, 1 PR, 8 pushes in 2 months
cppdata-structure-librarysuccinctjavadata-structures
rkonow/libcds_fast_select
Aug 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:3 pushes in 3 months
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