Rosa E.

Principal Engineer | ML Infra • Recommenders • LLMs

Role
Principal Software Engineer at Rec Room
Location
Seattle, WA, US
LinkedIn followers
500 followers

About Rosa E.

I’m a software engineer and technical leader with 15+ years of experience building ML…

Experience

  1. Principal Software Engineer

    Rec Room

    Sep 2020 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

    Built Rec Room’s ML and data infrastructure from scratch, enabling recommendations, personalization, and LLM-powered features for millions of players across thousands of user-generated games- Developed a self-serve ML platform that empowered data scientists to deploy hundreds of models end-to-end without engineering support- Designed the ranking system (+13% player time spent) and the “Similar Rooms” carousel (now driving 8% of visits)- Applied graph-based embeddings (node2vec) and LLM embeddings to improve recommendation relevance and discovery- Shipped LLM-powered features in Roomie, Rec Room’s AI bot, including per-user conversational memory for context-aware interactions- Drove collaboration across teams, mentored junior developers, and built workflows that enabled data scientists to achieve 10× greater productivity.Highlight: Launched Rec Room’s first ML infrastructure and recommendation platform, now core to engagement and monetization.

Education

  • University of Central Florida

    Doctor of Philosophy, Computer Science

    2004 — 2009

  • University of Central Florida

    Master of Science, Computer Science

    2004 — 2006

  • University of Central Florida

    Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

    2001 — 2004

Skills

  • Data Mining
  • C
  • Programming
  • Object Oriented Design
  • C++
  • C#
  • Computer Science
  • Visual Studio
  • Java
  • Azure
  • Software Development
  • Python
  • Software Engineering
  • Sql
  • Algorithms
  • Software Design
  • Machine Learning

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