Yonatan Karni
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Teads
Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolYonatan Karni is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer based in Israel with over two decades of professional software experience and 11 years focused on ML and data science. He blends hands-on coding passion with leadership, having led teams and projects from early design through deployment and measurement of real-world impact. His background spans full-stack engineering, C++/Qt and C#/WPF UI work, large-scale CTR prediction systems, and production ML optimization—improving model architectures, latency, throughput and feature infrastructure. Yonatan excels at translating product vision into technical plans, mentoring engineers, and maintaining high code quality through reviews and architecture collaboration. He’s comfortable building systems from scratch and also thrives in research-driven environments where iterative measurement guides decisions. An active public speaker and mentor, he brings both entrepreneurial curiosity and pragmatic delivery to complex ML problems.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BA computer science, BA computer science at Technion - Israel Institute of TechnologyMaster's degree (incomplete) Computer Science, Master's degree (incomplete) Computer Science at Bar-Ilan University
English, German, Spanish
Github Skills (18)
incremental-learning10
machine-learning10
logistic-regression10
rust10
python9
deep-learning9
cpp9
tensorflow8
neural-network8
machine-learning-models7
ml7
deep-neural-networks7
angularjs5
frontier2
active-learning2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
outbrain-inc/fwumious_wabbit
Sep 2020 - Jul 2022
Fwumious Wabbit, fast on-line machine learning toolkit written in Rust
Contributions:34 reviews, 226 commits, 22 PRs in 1 year 10 months
machine-learningrustfactorization-machineslogistic-regressiononline-learning
yonatankarni/fwumious_wabbit
Nov 2022 - Jan 2024
Fwumious Wabbit, fast on-line machine learning toolkit written in Rust
Contributions:24 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 1 month
rustwabbitmachine-learningon-line
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