uky171991@gmail.com 9453619260 San Jose, CA github.com/samanthalin-ml
EXECUTIVE OVERVIEW
Principal Machine Learning Scientist with 8+ years developing predictive recommendation engines, LLM fine-tuning pipelines, and high-frequency anomaly detection models for Big Tech. Holds 4 AI patents in deep reinforcement learning.
TRACK RECORD & EXPERIENCE
Principal ML Engineer & Team Lead
2021 – Present
Apex Neural Technologies
Designed transformer-based personalization model increasing click-through-rate by 28% and driving $42M incremental GMV.
Architected distributed inference infrastructure handling 350M daily API predictions with sub-15ms p99 latency.
Authored continuous automated model drift retraining pipelines using MLflow and Kubeflow.
Senior Machine Learning Scientist
2017 – 2021
Veritas Analytics Lab
Built fraud detection classifier scoring 12M credit card transactions daily with 99.8% precision.
Mentored 8 junior data scientists and published 5 peer-reviewed papers at NeurIPS and ICML.
CORE SKILLS
PyTorchDeep Learning & TransformersDistributed Training (Ray/vLLM)MLOps & MLflowPythonC++Docker/KubernetesVector DBs (Pinecone/Milvus)
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence