Erica Greene
Director Of Engineering, Personalization For Yahoo News
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolErica Greene is a seasoned engineering leader with 12 years of experience building and scaling machine learning systems for major media and observability platforms, now serving as Director of Engineering for Machine Learning at Yahoo News. She has a strong track record shipping production ML—launching Etsy’s first online neural network, improving ad CTR and seller ROAS, and owning core time-series models at Datadog—while also leading cross-functional teams of engineers and data scientists. Erica blends research grounding (graduate work in statistical ML and early NLP/poetry work at ISI) with practical production expertise in model serving, experimentation, and tooling that enabled 20x faster offline experiments. Based in New York, she writes about tech and media at Machines on Paper and is an advocate for inclusivity in engineering, bringing both technical depth and people-first leadership to high-impact ML products.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaBS, Math, Computer Science, BS, Math, Computer Science at Haverford CollegeMath, Math at Budapest Semesters in MathematicsCertificate , Wine Studies, Certificate , Wine Studies at Boston University
Github Skills (16)
wikipedia9
phrases8
ai8
nyc6
python6
react5
javascript5
multilabel-classification5
css5
text-mining4
nlp3
structured-data3
natural-language-processing3
environment-variables1
etcd1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
LanguageAndDiplomacy/IntroCS
Aug 2014 - Apr 2015
Contributions:85 commits, 25 pushes in 8 months
ericagreeene/tech-dict
Jul 2019 - Jan 2020
Digestible definitions of tech rhetoric.
Contributions:52 commits in 5 months
pythondefinitions
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