Brandon Iles
San Francisco, United States
Co-Founder at Ampleforth | Ampleforth & SPOT Protocol, Co-Founder, CTO Fragments, Inc.
Summary
I am Brandon Iles, working as Co-Founder at Ampleforth. I am based in San Francisco, United States. I am passionate about my work and committed to delivering excellent results.
Co-Founder
Ampleforth
1 Feb 2018 - Present
8yrs 6mos
San Francisco Bay Area
Ampleforth - Powering Innovations in Money AMPL - A Decentralized, durable Unit of Account SPOT - An inflation resistant Store of Value FORTH - Governance for the Ampleforth Ecosystem https://www.ampleforth.org/ https://spot.cash
Sr Software Engineer
Uber
1 Aug 2015 - 28 Feb 2018
2yrs 6mos
San Francisco Bay Area
Worked in the Location Search group and developed the autocomplete search engine that powers the in-app location search (retrieval and ranking). Also developed the personalized Rider prediction system that predicts your intended pickup and dropoff location based on your past activity on the system. This system powers 55% of the trips on the platform.
Senior Software Engineer - Search Ranking
1 Feb 2010 - 31 Aug 2015
5yrs 6mos
Mountain View, CA
Question Answering on the web: do bumble bees sting? why are there so many craters on the moon? who is the fastest man? Machine Intelligence Aug 2013 to Aug 2014 Natural Language Understanding, Question Answering. Enterprise Search Feb 2010 - Jul 2013 Search Pipeline group on the Google Search Appliance (GSA). Index features, crawling and serving systems.
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