Zak Jost
Staff Data Scientist
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZak Jost is a Staff Data Scientist with 11 years of experience building production machine learning and AutoML systems, currently focused on Graph ML and GNN tooling integrated with graph databases. He helped design and ship Neptune ML at AWS, enabling one-call GNN model training and deployment, and earlier was an early scientist on Amazon Fraud Detector where he built AutoML for fraud models. Now at Airbnb, he applies research-driven engineering to product problems, bridging deep ML expertise with scalable service delivery. Outside work he creates educational content—running a GNN course, a YouTube channel, a Discord community, and a technical blog—making complex graph ML accessible to practitioners.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Physics, Master of Science Physics at University of Missouri-Saint Louis
Github Skills (137)
deep-learning10
graph10
lambda9
julia9
python9
mxnet9
visualizations9
agent-based-simulation9
hyperparameters9
agent-based-modeling9
mesa9
aws9
complex9
information-theory9
aws-apigateway8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
zjost/flight-app
Oct 2016 - Dec 2021
Contributions:3 PRs, 5 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 2 months
zjost/blog_code
Jan 2020 - Jun 2022
A repo for holding example code
Contributions:6 commits, 18 PRs, 23 pushes in 2 years 5 months
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