Orson Adams
Staff Machine Leaning Engineer at Etsy
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolOrson Adams is a Staff Machine Learning Engineer with 11 years of experience scaling traditional and deep neural networks to serve millions through search and recommendation systems. Based in New York, he has progressed at Etsy from senior to staff roles, bringing hands-on expertise in billion-feature model optimization, front-facing deployments, and ML observability. His background includes shipping multilingual and production-ready deep learning pipelines at Moody’s Analytics and turning consultancy workflows into SaaS-like automation at Space Jam Data. He combines technical leadership, mentoring, and hiring with strong communication skills to grow teams as problem scope expands. Notably, he’s comfortable across the stack—from feature engineering and model deployment to metrics and tooling—and enjoys translating prototype ideas into resilient, user-facing systems.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Applied Mathematics, Minor In Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Bachelor's Degree Applied Mathematics, Minor In Computer Science, Applied Mathematics at City Tech, CUNY
English
Github Skills (73)
datetime10
python10
arabic-nlp10
python-datetime10
lda10
fasttext10
deep-learning10
glove10
word2vec10
corpus10
nlp10
topic-modeling10
jax10
sentence-embeddings10
gensim10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
orsonadams/dateutil
Apr 2018 - Apr 2020
Useful extensions to the standard Python datetime features
Contributions:1 PR, 13 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years
datetimedate-parserpythonstandard-pythonobjectmapper
orsonadams/ml-system-design-resources
May 2020 - Jun 2020
Contributions:17 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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