Tim Jurka

VP of Engineering

2024

Leading the global engineering teams that build the LinkedIn Feed, Creation, and Video experiences. We are a cross-functional team of apps, infra, AI engineers and data scientists building experiences to tap into the collective professional knowledge of the world.

Senior Director of Engineering

2021 - 2024

Led the AI and Data Science teams that build LinkedIn’s consumer experiences.

Director of Engineering

2018 - 2021

Led the global teams of data engineers, scientists, and linguists that build AI algorithms to personalize the LinkedIn Feed, Search, and Content experiences.

Senior Engineering Manager

2017 - 2018

Led the Feed & Content Relevance teams, which are responsible for personalizing the homepage news feed in addition to other LinkedIn content experiences using machine learning.

Engineering Manager

2015 - 2017

Led the Content Relevance team at LinkedIn. Scaled relevance infrastructure to power billions of monthly impressions.

Staff Software Engineer

2014 - 2015

Built the relevance engine powering the LinkedIn Pulse experience in the Pulse app and on the LinkedIn homepage.

Senior Software Engineer

2013 - 2014

Integrated Pulse's relevance engine and data into LinkedIn's tech stack after the acquisition.

Software Engineer

2013 - 2013

Led news relevance efforts at Pulse, a news-reading application with 30M+ users. Designed the first recommender system, developed core infrastructure for machine learning, and was responsible for the due diligence and integration of the Pulse machine learning stack during LinkedIn's acquisition.

Ph.D. Student

2011 - 2013

My research intersected political science, machine learning, and population biology. While at UC Davis, I designed software for document classification via supervised learning, developed agent-based models to understand the effects of shocks (e.g. riots, natural disasters) on social and physical (e.g. computer, utility, transportation) networks, and tracked voter reactions to political debates in real-time and explored which debate messages resonate with voters.

Research Assistant

2012 - 2013

Student Developer

2012 - 2012

Research Assistant

2011 - 2012

Research Assistant

2011 - 2012

Research Assistant

2009 - 2010

Intern

2008 - 2009

Software Engineer

2007 - 2008