Marcos Sainz
VP Of Engineering AI at Duckbill
Tustin, California, United States
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Top SchoolMarcos Sainz is a seasoned engineering leader specializing in AI, analytics, and scalable software, with 14 years driving high-performing teams across startups and enterprise environments. He is currently VP of Engineering & AI at Duckbill, where he shapes the strategy and delivery of production ML and software platforms. Before Duckbill, he led engineering at Returnly as CTO and guided software organization and product execution at Affirm as Senior Director of Software Engineering. He brings a rare combination of deep ML architecture know-how and hands-on leadership, with earlier roles at Glassdoor and ModCloth building ranking systems and data-driven solutions. An academically rigorous coder, he holds a BS in Computer Engineering from Columbia, an MSIT with a Machine Learning concentration from CMU, and a BM in Professional Music from Berklee, underscoring a blend of technical precision and creative problem solving. Based in Tustin, California, he has a track record of building and motivating distributed teams to ship reliable, scalable AI-enabled systems.
14 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
AldoveaBM, Professional Music, Summa Cum Laude, 3.92 GPA, BM, Professional Music, Summa Cum Laude, 3.92 GPA at Berklee College of MusicMSIT, eBusiness Technology, Machine Learning Concentration, 3.98 GPA, MSIT, eBusiness Technology, Machine Learning Concentration, 3.98 GPA at Carnegie Mellon UniversitySummer School, Computer Science and Engineering, Summer School, Computer Science and Engineering at Harvard UniversityBS, Computer Engineering, Economics Concentration, Summa Cum Laude, 3.96 GPA, BS, Computer Engineering, Economics Concentration, Summa Cum Laude, 3.96 GPA at Columbia University
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Github Skills (36)
python9
ansible9
julia9
ssh9
data-structures8
insertion8
associative8
devops8
kdtree7
agents7
datastructures7
automation7
preserve6
activerecord6
collections6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
msainz/kdtree
Jun 2011 - Mar 2013
Ruby KDTree and NNSearch
Contributions:3 commits in 1 year 9 months
test-kitchenrubymrubykdtreejruby
msainz/dce
May 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:18 commits, 47 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 3 months
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