Katerina is a senior machine learning engineer at Meta. She is working on the machine learning models that power content recommendations on the Facebook home feed and Facebook Reels, with an emphasis on cold start problems. Previously, she was a Staff Software Engineer at The New York Times, where she helped build their personalization platform as well as scaling the newsroom messaging platform so that it could send 50 million emails in under 1 minute. She holds a dual Master's degree in Computer Science and Journalism from Columbia University. She is passionate about building intelligent machines for the media and exploring how technology can reshape information consumption. Katerina lives in New York with her husband and 1.5 year old son.
How to balance technical direction and leadership work
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How to balance technical direction and leadership work
45 mins
05 Mar 2024
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