Ryan Ginstrom

Japan

@ryan58

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Work Experience

  • Engineering Manager

    Mercari•  August 2021 - Present•  Tokyo, Japan

    - Spearheaded the integration of ML in search, significantly improving user experience and KPIs - Led AI/LLM team to successfully launch first major production feature utilizing LLM technology

  • Senior Software Engineer

    LivePerson•  October 2019 - March 2021•  Seattle, Washington

    - Developed high-volume ML system using Kafka, Hadoop, Kotlin, and ElasticSearch - Implemented automated model training and deployment system, enhancing efficiency

  • Engineering Manager

    Conversica•  December 2015 - October 2019•  Seattle, Washington

    - Architected AI system for conversation control using ML models - Established continuous build/deployment/integration system for ML models - Designed flexible and configurable processing pipelines for ML models - Roughly tripled company revenues with new ML system

  • Senior Software Engineer

    Lending Robot•  February 2015 - December 2015•  Seattle, Washington

    - Secondary market loan platform (python/django) - ML ops for machine learning loan ranking model - Automated loan investment algorithm

  • Software Engineer

    Gathered Table•  December 2013 - December 2014•  Seattle, Washington

    - Website backend (python/django) - Menu creation algorithm using linear programming - Grocery list and recipe generation algorithms (python)

  • Software Engineer

    Nintendo of Amercia•  March 2011 - November 2013•  Redmond, Washington

    - Back office productivity tools - Game developer support - Support finops and online shop

  • Software Engineer

    Consultant•  June 1999 - March 2011•  Okinawa, Japan

    - Text processing focused on Japanese NLP - Desktop productivity software (c++, python) - Web development (php, python)

Education

  • Stanford University

    BA•  January 2024 - January 2024•  GPA: 3.9

    BA Stanford 1997

Skills

Python(Advanced)
C++
Django
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