Dan Turkel
Staff Machine Learning Engineer at CodePath
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Turkel is a Staff Machine Learning Engineer in New York with 13 years of experience building recommendation, personalization, relevance, and search systems. Currently leading recommendations at Hinge, he engineered a user-to-user model deployed globally that drove double-digit improvements in key user outcomes. He combines an academic foundation in mathematics and data science with hands-on production ML experience across ecommerce and consumer products from Rent the Runway to Hinge. Beyond engineering, he volunteers as a technical interview coach and mentor, reflecting a commitment to developing talent and communicating complex ideas clearly. A former journalist and editor by background, he brings uncommon strengths in storytelling and rigorous experimentation to data-driven product work.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Data Science, Master's Degree, Data Science at New York UniversityHorace Greeley High SchoolBachelor’s Degree, English and Mathematics, Bachelor’s Degree, English and Mathematics at Tufts University
Github Skills (200)
htmx10
hyperparameter-optimization10
llm-inference10
html10
data-science10
llm10
python10
menubar10
pretrain10
latex10
tensorflow10
machine-learning10
large-language-models10
hateoas10
ray10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
daturkel/dt31
Jan 2025 - Dec 2025
Contributions:9 releases, 13 PRs, 80 pushes in 10 months
daturkel/sd_bandits
Oct 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:16 reviews, 66 commits, 23 PRs in 1 month
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