Steve Essinger
Software Engineering Manager at Meta
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteve Essinger is an entrepreneurial software engineering leader and AI/ML executive with a track record of translating research into scalable digital products. At Nike, he led global personalization within the Consumer Data Science organization, building models that power product, editorial, and consumer experiences and creating a product recommendations program that now delivers hundreds of millions in incremental revenue, earning recognition at the ACM RecSys conference. Earlier at Pandora, he steered end-to-end personalization for core music and the launch of Podcasts, delivering high-performance recommendations to millions of listeners. He founded ActionValue.AI, serving as Director of ML & AI and delivering tailored AI/ML solutions for mid-market companies and growth-stage startups. His background includes a Drexel PhD in Electrical & Computer Engineering with extensive ML research, and early engineering work at Honeywell that resulted in multiple patents. Based in Portland, Oregon, he currently leads software engineering at Meta, combining product intuition, scientific rigor, and cross-functional leadership to ship impactful, scalable AI-enabled systems and mentor teams.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical & Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical & Computer Engineering at Drexel University
Github Skills (9)
collaborative-filtering5
implicit5
matrix-factorization5
filtering4
machine-learning4
recommendation-system4
recommender-system4
datasets4
python3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
sessinger/sessinger.github.io
Jan 2024 - Sep 2024
Contributions:8 pushes, 2 branches in 8 months
sessinger/action-value-ai-web
Jan 2025 - Jan 2025
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
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