Summary
Sinan A is a Staff Software Engineer in San Francisco with 10 years of experience building production ML systems that power credit underwriting, growth marketing, and developer tooling. With a PhD in Mathematics and postdoctoral research experience, he combines deep theoretical rigor with practical engineering to design robust optimization and modeling pipelines. At Affirm he leads ML initiatives for high-stakes financial products, and previously helped build ML-driven code assistance at Kite and ad optimization systems at NextRoll. He is comfortable spanning research, data science, and software engineering—turning complex mathematical ideas into scalable, monitored services. An analytic thinker with an academic background, he brings uncommon mathematical depth to applied ML problems in industry.
11 years of coding experience