Stanford University

Software engineer.

Staff Software Engineer working under the VP of Eng.
Working on collections and ML Platform, along with company-wide system and process improvements.
Working on LLM-driven voice assistant and evaluation framework for human/LLM interactions.

Neon

Staff Software Engineer

Sr. Software Engineer in Institutional org., acting as both a technical lead and an individual contributor to key projects.
Migrated 20% of critical site traffic from legacy systems to new service implementation, reducing P95 latency by 50%.
Received High Impact Award in Q4 2022.

Coinbase

Senior Software Engineer

Founding member of startup developing financial services.
Implemented backend (go), mobile app (flutter), and data pipelines (Apache Spark / go) for our product offering and internal use.
Core work on search, scrapers, and client performance (reduced startup time by 80%).
Designed and implemented our fraud detection capability.
(Meemo was acquired by Coinbase in June 2021.)

Meemo

Software Engineer

One of the two first employees at Snap’s SF office, which had the mission of developing advanced search capability for the Snap platform.
Took Snapchat’s search features, including algorithmic story generation (python) and backend serving (go), from prototype to launch

Snap Inc.

Sr. Software Engineer working in Search Quality.
Worked on core search ranking, snippets, and ranking for the ‘Top Stories’ block.
Launched 2nd most impactful snippets change to date.
Sole author on one issued patent.

Google

Research Engineer supporting Research Scientists.
Worked in Computational Advertising & Economics groups, including on the core matching algorithm for Yahoo!’s ad systems.
Coauthor on four papers and one patent.

Peter Ciccolo