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Julia Russell
Machine Learning Engineer with experience in model delivery, data quality, inference, evaluation, and business impact. Practical work includes Python, PyTorch, Feature pipelines, Model serving.
Experience
OpenAI
San Francisco · United States
Machine Learning Engineer
Mar 2022 - now
- Built a Python machine learning pipeline using SQL-derived viewing features, keeping training and evaluation windows separate; compared the model against a simple baseline before recommending deployment.
- Added monitoring for prediction freshness, feature drift, and serving errors; tested a fallback ranking path so delayed features would not leave the recommendation surface empty.
- Versioned training data and model artifacts together, compared offline evaluation with serving latency, and inspected misclassified examples before approving the deployment candidate.
- Owned a PyTorch evaluation slice using frozen data and random seeds, resolving a misleading model gain caused by duplicate examples across train and test sets.
- Built a Python deployment check with Kubernetes resource limits, reducing inference failures from 14 to 3 per 1,000 replayed requests at the same load.
Microsoft
Redmond, Washington · United States
Machine Learning Engineer
Jan 2019 - Feb 2022
- Implemented shadow traffic and automatic rollback for two model services. Completed the rollout against the approved acceptance criteria.
- Investigated a discrepancy between a published metric and its source records, traced the transformation that changed the population, and corrected the calculation with a reproducible query.
- Compared the last successful data refresh with a failed run, separated missing source data from transformation errors, and reran only the affected interval. Kept the original query and corrected result together for review.
Selected project
Machine Learning Engineer — independent case study
Project owner
Feb 2024 - Jun 2024
- Built an offline-to-online evaluation suite with slice-level metrics for 14 cohorts
- Generated synthetic source records with duplicates, late arrivals and corrected values; wrote assertions for row counts and key uniqueness, and recorded the expected effect of each case on the reported metric.
- Compared the analytical output with a manually calculated reference table, traced differences to a transformation step, and retained a data dictionary and rerun instructions alongside the corrected query.
- Owned the synthetic-data validation using a manually calculated reference, resolved duplicate-key inflation and completed a notebook that reproduces the corrected totals.
Education
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington · United States
B.S. Computer Science
Sep 2013 - Jun 2017
Relevant coursework: Algorithms, operating systems, databases, computer networks
Skills
Role expertise
Python · PyTorch · Feature pipelines · Model serving · Evaluation · Kubernetes
Publications
- Published an independent methods note using reproducible queries, explaining the data grain, excluded records and sensitivity of the result to a changed denominator.


