(206) 555-0149 ◇ Seattle, WA
tenzin.dorjee@example.com ◇ linkedin.com/in/tenzin-dorjee ◇ tenzindorjee.com
Machine learning engineer with 6 years building and shipping recommendation and ranking models for an e-commerce marketplace with 40M monthly users. Owns 4 production models serving about 900M predictions a day, lifted add-to-cart rate 11% with a two-tower retrieval model, and cut ranking model training cost 45% by moving to a distributed feature pipeline. Measures every model by the online metric it moved, and ships with the monitoring to prove it.
Coursework in Statistical Learning, Deep Learning, Large-Scale Systems, and Information Retrieval.
AWS Certified Machine Learning Specialty earned in 2022.
- Own 4 production recommendation and ranking models serving about 900M predictions a day for 40M monthly users at a p99 latency under 40 milliseconds.
- Lifted add-to-cart rate 11% and revenue per session 6% with a two-tower retrieval model validated across a 4-week A/B test on 8M users.
- Cut ranking model training cost 45%, about $380,000 a year, by moving feature generation to a distributed Spark pipeline with point-in-time joins.
- Built a gradient boosted search ranking model that raised click-through rate 8% across 12M searches a day.
- Shipped 9 models to production in 3 years with a canary rollout process that caught 3 regressions before full traffic.
- Built model monitoring for feature drift and prediction distribution across 6 models, cutting undetected degradation incidents from 5 a year to 0.
- Built a product categorisation model across 2,400 categories that reached 94% accuracy, replacing a rules system at 81%.
- Reduced categorisation inference cost 60% through model distillation to a smaller architecture.
- Received a return offer at the end of the 14-week internship based on the model shipping to production.
Two-Tower Retrieval Model. Designed and shipped a two-tower retrieval model over 30M items and 40M users with in-batch negatives and an approximate nearest neighbour index refreshed hourly, which lifted add-to-cart 11% in a 4-week A/B test and replaced a collaborative filtering system that could not handle new items.
Distributed Feature Pipeline. Rebuilt feature generation for the ranking model as a Spark pipeline with point-in-time correct joins over 18 months of event data, which removed training-serving skew found in 3 features, cut training cost 45%, and cut the retraining cycle from 5 days to 1.
Model Monitoring System. Built a monitoring system tracking feature drift, prediction distribution, and online metric deltas for 6 models with alerts to the on-call engineer, which caught a silent upstream schema change within 2 hours that would have degraded ranking for a week.
- Co-organise a city recommender systems meetup of about 300 members that meets every 2 months.
- Reviewer for an industry recommender systems workshop, about 8 papers a year.
- Volunteer mentor for a machine learning bootcamp, coaching 4 students a cohort.
- Technical lead for a recommendations team of 5 engineers and 2 data scientists.
- Mentored 3 junior engineers, 2 of whom shipped their first production model within 6 months.
- Run the weekly model review where every experiment is evaluated before an A/B test is launched.

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