Starvon Washington
Principal Software Engineer at Yahoo
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolStarvon Washington is a Principal Software Engineer with nine years of experience designing resilient, scalable backend systems and leading AI-driven product engineering. He co-founded MoodGaze, where he built an LLM-to-TTS generative audio platform with checkpointed, resumable pipelines and event-driven orchestration that cut generation time by 71% and reduced recovery effort by 80%. At Walmart he led the transformation of fragile batch processes into Kafka-backed, event-driven replenishment and fulfillment systems and architected a CPRA-compliant bulk data deletion service covering millions of records. He blends hands-on systems work (Go, Node.js, PostgreSQL, AWS CDK, SQS, S3) with ML integration and operational rigor to turn model predictions into dependable user-facing features. Now driving personalized ranking and recommendations for Yahoo News, he focuses on measurable feedback loops between ML and production systems. Outside of engineering he channels creativity into music and drumming, which informs his approach to product cadence and user experience.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Bachelor of Arts - BA at Berklee College of Music
Github Skills (34)
ios10
windows10
cross-platform10
desktop10
android10
macos10
carousel-slider10
flutter10
infinite-scroll9
mobile9
material-design9
autoplay9
dart9
scroll8
web-framework8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
music2code/LinkedIMDb
Mar 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:14 PRs, 20 pushes, 2 branches in 5 months
music2code/axolotl
Feb 2018 - Feb 2018
Contributions:7 pushes in 2 days
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