Jay Kreps

Current

• Senior Software Engineer at LinkedIn

Past

• Senior Software Engineer, Data Mining at NexTag, Inc.
• Software Engineer at Movaris

Education

• University of California, Santa Cruz
• University of California, Santa Cruz

Connections

153 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Company

Jay Kreps’s Summary

I am interested in creating new internet applications, and making existing ones smarter and more personalized using machine learning, statistics, optimization techniques and common sense.

Jay Kreps’s Specialties:

machine learning, data mining, statistics, data warehousing, optimization, analytics, distributed computing, software design, oracle, mysql, java, python, c, R, functional programming

Jay Kreps’s Experience

• Senior Software Engineer

  LinkedIn

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

  August 2007 — Present (1 year)

• Senior Software Engineer, Data Mining

  NexTag, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)

  April 2006 — July 2007 (1 year 4 months)

  I worked on a system for collecting, analyzing, and optimizing data around merchant profitability on a large, high-traffic consumer internet site. I designed the system used for this from the ground up and was the first employee on the NexTag data mining team when it was formed specifically to concentrate on this problem.

• Software Engineer

  Movaris

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  April 2005 — April 2006 (1 year 1 month)

Jay Kreps’s Education

• University of California, Santa Cruz

  MS, Computer Science, 2003 — 2005

• University of California, Santa Cruz

  BS, Computer Science, 1999 — 2002

Additional Information

Jay Kreps’s Websites:

• My Company

Jay Kreps’s Interests:

machine learning, statistics, open source software, math, snowboarding, politics, novels, entrepreneurialism, people.

Jay Kreps’s Groups:

•    Data & Text Analytics Professionals member
•    R Community member

Jay Kreps’s Honors:

Highest Honors, School of Engineering, UCSC

Jay Kreps’s Contact Settings

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