Robert Gruener
Senior Software Engineer at Netflix
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Gruener is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building machine learning infrastructure, currently focused on feature infra at Netflix. His career spans consumer-scale personalization at Spotify (Discover Weekly, Release Radar), perception systems for self-driving cars at Uber ATG, and leading art intelligence and data-platform efforts at Sotheby's—demonstrating rare depth across recommendation engines, safety-critical ML, and content/catalog intelligence. He combines hands-on work from model development to production data lakes and feature pipelines that serve hundreds of millions of users, backed by a BE in Electrical Engineering. Early teaching of physical computing with Arduino and system-administration roots give him a hardware-aware, systems-minded approach to complex ML problems.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Electrical Engineering at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
English
Github Skills (103)
dataflow10
toolbox10
pyspark10
apache-arrow10
google-cloud10
parquet10
streaming10
beam10
sysml10
api10
batch10
petastorm10
bigquery10
in-memory10
apache10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
rgruener/othello
Sep 2013 - Aug 2014
Contributions:17 commits in 11 months
rgruener/arrow
Jun 2018 - Sep 2018
Apache Arrow is a cross-language development platform for in-memory data. It specifies a standardized language-independent columnar memory format for flat and hierarchical data, organized for efficient analytic operations on modern hardware. It also provides computational libraries and zero-copy streaming messaging and interprocess communication. Languages currently supported include C, C++, Java, JavaScript, Python, and Ruby.
Contributions:32 pushes, 7 branches in 3 months
memorypythonhierarchicalarrowdevelopment-platform
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