Welcome
Sam
Ziegler
Professional Experience
May 2023 — Present
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Saildrone
End-to-end computer vision for autonomous drones — from VLM-powered pseudo-labeling to on-drone inference, plus real-time model monitoring dashboards.
Oct 2019 — Feb 2023
Twitter
Senior Software Engineer
Deployed Twitter's first transformer-based production model for Toxicity detection and owned the team's ML serving infrastructure on GCP.
Oct 2017 — Oct 2019
Machine Learning Engineer
Sift Science
Prototyped and shipped fraud detection models, improving accuracy through feature engineering and bootstrapping-based uncertainty analysis.
Aug 2016 — Oct 2017
Associate Data Scientist
Lending Club
Trained ML models for business needs and built data pipelines with Hive and Presto across large-scale financial datasets.