Sarah Gemperle
Machine Learning Engineer at Strava
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolSarah Gemperle is a Machine Learning Engineer with nine years of software engineering experience and an MS in Computer Science focused on Machine Learning from Georgia Tech. She has built personalized recommendation and ranking systems at Yelp and now applies ML at Strava, bringing hands-on experience with PySpark ETLs, production feature launches, and monitoring dashboards. Her background spans full-stack development, notifications systems, and performance optimizations that reduced deploy times dramatically, demonstrating both product sensibility and engineering rigor. Sarah also pairs industry work with teaching and coaching—having been a ski instructor and CS tutor—bringing clear communication and user-focused pedagogy to technical teams. Based in San Diego, she blends rigorous academic training with practical production experience in personalization and ML-driven product features.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Turlock High School/Central Catholic High SchoolUniversity of California, San DiegoBachelors - International Studies Program Business Administration, Bachelors - International Studies Program Business Administration at Thammasat UniversityMaster of Science - MS Computer Science - Machine Learning, Master of Science - MS Computer Science - Machine Learning at Georgia Institute of TechnologyProfessional iOS - For CS Majors iOS Development, Professional iOS - For CS Majors iOS Development at CodePath
English, German
Github Skills (13)
postgresql-database6
api6
react5
rest5
heroku5
rest-api5
nodejs5
database4
react-native4
azure3
microsoft3
postgresql3
microsoft-azure2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
sarahgemp04/sarahgemp04.github.io
Sep 2017 - May 2019
Contributions:80 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
sarahgemp04/MyInstagram
Mar 2017 - Apr 2019
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.