Samuel Ziegler

Samuel Ziegler is a seasoned machine learning and software engineer currently holding the position of Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Saildrone Inc since May 2023. Prior to this role, Samuel served at Twitter in various capacities, including Senior Software Engineer, where responsibilities involved scaling media backend processing, and Senior ML Engineer, focusing on backend machine learning serving and recommendation optimization. Samuel’s experience also includes a tenure as a Machine Learning Engineer at Sift, contributing to the Content Integrity Team, along with roles at Lending Club as an Associate Data Scientist and at Allstate as a Machine Learning Engineer. Samuel began a career in technical roles with a software development internship at Pivotal Software and has a strong academic background with an M.S. in Mathematics from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a B.S. in Mathematical Sciences from Carnegie Mellon University.