Jay Kreps

Jay Kreps

Engineer at LinkedIn

San Francisco Bay Area

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

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 2007Present (1 year)

  • Senior Software Engineer, Data Mining

    NexTag, Inc.

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

    April 2006July 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 2005April 2006 (1 year 1 month)


Jay Kreps’s Education

  • University of California, Santa Cruz

    MS, Computer Science, 20032005

  • University of California, Santa Cruz

    BS, Computer Science, 19992002


Additional Information

Jay Kreps’s Websites:

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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