Sean Quigley
Founder at Surface AI
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSean Quigley is a seasoned software engineer and founder with 12 years of experience building large-scale information retrieval, machine learning, and data engineering systems. He led search, recommendation, and ML efforts at GIPHY—rearchitecting its core search to a Learn-To-Rank system and scaling relevance for hundreds of millions of global users—then continued product and platform leadership through Instagram/Meta integration. Based in New York, he combines hands-on engineering (from high-throughput streaming ETL and data platforms to production ML infra) with product leadership, most recently founding Surface AI to translate search and discovery expertise into new products. His background spans data science, quantitative research, and distributed systems, reflecting an uncommon mix of academic rigor (BS in Physics & Economics) and production-grade engineering. Notably, he has experience building in-house experimentation and A/B frameworks and tuning systems that serve billions of daily requests.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Physics Economics, B.S. Physics Economics at University of MichiganData science and machine learning, Data science and machine learning at General Assembly
Github Skills (62)
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betting9
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giphy-api8
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schema7
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react-component-library7
confluent7
radix-ui7
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nextjs7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
seanpquig/betting-odds-analyzer
Nov 2015 - Mar 2018
Contributions:92 commits, 1 PR, 79 pushes in 2 years 3 months
statisticspythonmachine-learningbettingodds
seanpquig/mini-search
Jul 2017 - Jan 2019
A single-node, in-memory search engine (mostly for experimental purposes)
Contributions:2 PRs, 25 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 6 months
single-nodememorysearch-enginein-memorysearch
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