Steve Tjoa
Senior Software Engineer at Google
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolSteve Tjoa is a Senior Software Engineer at Google with 14 years of experience deploying machine learning models in production, specializing in app targeting and retrieval for the Play Store. He brings a strong research pedigree—PhD in Electrical Engineering, an NSF postdoctoral fellowship, and 13 co-authored publications—combined with hands-on industry work at companies like iZotope, Humtap, and Ayzenberg. A longtime contributor to music information retrieval, he created the instructional resource musicinformationretrieval.com (used at Stanford, Harvard, and MIT) and maintains related GitHub notebooks for feature extraction and alignment. He also consults on ML and data science, has reviewed over 100 papers, and has led MIR workshops and coursework for nearly a decade. Outside engineering, he is an active violinist and orchestra leader, a detail that reflects his unique blend of technical rigor and creative practice.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. Electrical Engineering at University of Maryland
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Github Skills (39)
algorithm10
scipy10
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python10
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signal-processing10
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machine-learning10
kmeans10
language-agnostic10
forloop10
loops10
numpy10
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
iranroman/musicinformationretrieval.com
May 2014 - May 2022
Instructional notebooks on music information retrieval.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Data Scientist
Back-end Developer & Data ScientistContributions:312 commits, 10 PRs, 260 pushes in 8 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Steve appears to be primarily involved in developing a music information retrieval system, as indicated by the repository description and topics. Their commits focus on creating a table of contents and introductory material in notebooks using Python, indicating some role in documentation and project organization. The user also worked on basic feature extraction and dynamic time warping.
pythonmusic-informationjupyter-notebookmachine-learningnotebooks
stevetjoa/.vim
Apr 2015 - Jul 2018
Contributions:9 pushes in 3 years 3 months
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