Tayfun T
Sr Staff Machine Learning Engineer at ServiceNow
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolTayfun T is a Sr. Staff Machine Learning Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with a PhD in Computer Science and over a decade of experience building end-to-end ML systems from data collection and feature engineering to model deployment and monitoring. He blends research rigor with production-first engineering, having led ML efforts at ServiceNow, AppZen, and Amazon and co-founded a tech startup where he wore both CTO and hands-on engineering hats. Comfortable across Python, Java, Scala/Spark, and a wide range of databases and cloud tooling, he emphasizes clean, modular, test-driven code and reliable CI/CD using Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes and observability stacks like Datadog and Grafana. His background spans academia (postdoc and lecturing) and industry, giving him a knack for translating complex algorithms into scalable, auditable services. Notably, he pairs deep ML expertise with full-stack familiarity—including .NET and React—making him effective at bridging data science, engineering, and product teams.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Houston
Turkish, English
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Github Skills (11)
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
scaber/Reactivities
Jan 2020 - Sep 2020
Contributions:37 commits, 27 pushes, 2 branches in 8 months
scaber/TurkSeker
Aug 2020 - Sep 2020
Contributions:11 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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