Derrick Bonafilia

Derrick Bonafilia is a seasoned machine learning engineer with extensive experience in developing advanced technologies across various organizations. Currently serving as a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Quizlet since July 2023, Derrick previously held significant roles such as Senior Software Engineer at The New York Times, where responsibilities included building parallel processing pipelines and a text-to-image search engine employing NLP and vision-language models. Derrick also contributed as a Research Assistant to the CEO at the Allen Institute for AI, and as a Machine Learning Scientist at Floodbase, focusing on deep learning algorithms for flood detection. Earlier experience at Meta involved creating computer vision models to address misinformation, while internships at Facebook, Google, and Williams College provided a foundation in software engineering and research. Derrick holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Williams College.