Tim Jurka
The Bearer of Good News at LinkedIn
San Francisco Bay Area
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2013
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.
2013 - 2013
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.
2011 - 2013
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.
2012 - 2013
Research Assistant
2012 - 2013
2012 - 2012
Student Developer
2012 - 2012
2011 - 2012
Research Assistant
2011 - 2012
2011 - 2012
Research Assistant
2011 - 2012
2009 - 2010
Research Assistant
2009 - 2010
2008 - 2009
Intern
2008 - 2009
2007 - 2008
Software Engineer
2007 - 2008