Biljana Rolih
Machine Learning Engineer at Barracuda
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBiljana Rolih is a Machine Learning Engineer in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building NLP products that move research and prototypes into production. She has full‑stack ML experience—designing and deploying scalable microservices and language models (NLTK, spaCy, BERT/transformers)—and has applied this at startups like Writer and at Barracuda. Her background spans computational chemistry research (PhD-level high‑throughput electronic structure work) to data science roles at Coinbase and Metis, giving her a rare combination of rigorous scientific modeling and product-focused ML engineering. Known for translating academic papers into production code, she also pays attention to practical metrics like performance and scalability to make NLP features reliable in real-world systems.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Physics, Bachelor's degree, Physics at University of California, Santa BarbaraDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computational Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computational Chemistry at University of California, Los Angeles
English, Serbian, German
Github Skills (6)
python2
machine-learning1
hypothesis-tests1
predictive-modeling1
predictive1
modeling1
Github contributions (5)
billiescodes/mortality_in_ICU
Jun 2017 - Sep 2018
Contributions:73 commits, 66 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
billiescodes/kiwicode
Aug 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 100 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 6 months
pythonpython3
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