Tim Jurka
VP of Engineering at LinkedIn
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
VP of Engineering
2024 - Current
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.
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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.
Pulse is a news reading app that provides users with news from multiple RSS feeds on a single interface.
Raised $10,000,000.00 from Lerer Hippeau, New Enterprise Associates, Greycroft and SV Angel.
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
Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.
Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.
Research Assistant
2011 - 2012
Research Assistant
2011 - 2012
Research Assistant
2009 - 2010
Intern
2008 - 2009
Software Engineer
2007 - 2008