Ely M. Spears is an engineering manager for data platform & machine learning at Netflix.
Ely (he/him/his) has also served as engineering manager for machine learning at Twitter & Squarespace, staff ML engineer at Foursquare, senior ML engineer at Shutterstock and research engineer at McGraw-Hill Education, Acadian Asset Management and MIT Lincoln Laboratory. Ely earned his bachelor’s degree in mathematics at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (ski Terre Haute!) and graduate degrees in engineering science and applied mathematics from Harvard University and Brown University while serving as an NDSEG fellow - and still proudly opens packets of candy with his teeth.