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Donald Nguyen

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Senior AI/ML Engineer at Zapier who built the evaluation harness that raised offline-to-online metric correlation to 0.82.

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At Zapier, I built the AI Zap Builder evaluation harness that became the gate for model and prompt changes, raising offline-to-online metric correlation from ~0.4 to 0.82. I also architected RAG infrastructure powering Copilot, AI Zap Builder, and Tables field enrichment.

I designed a LangGraph multi-agent orchestration system that backs four production AI features, and authored MCP servers exposing Zapier's app integrations as agent-callable tools. I also instrumented LLM observability and migrated ML training and serving templates to a unified platform.

On Zapier's Editor AI team, I shipped the retrieval and ranking system behind Copilot from beta to GA, serving 100K+ daily active users. I established evaluation frameworks and owned the ML lifecycle for the trigger/action recommender, which drove a 19% lift in zap completion rate for new users.

At Shopify, I led ML modeling for merchant matching and developed demand forecasting for fulfillment capacity planning. I also productionized a contextual-bandit personalization engine and built NLP pipelines for merchant product descriptions.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Senior AI/ML Engineer II

Sep 2024 - Present (2 years 1 month)

Built the AI Zap Builder evaluation harness that became the gating system for model and prompt changes, raising offline-to-online metric correlation from ~0.4 to 0.82 and cutting regression-related rollbacks by 71%. Architected RAG infrastructure and multi-agent orchestration systems, and authored production MCP servers for 8,000+ app integrations.

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

The University of Texas at Austin logoTA

The University of Texas at Austin

Master of Science, Computer Science

2015 - 2016

Pursued a Master of Science in Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin from 2015 to 2016.

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The University of Texas at Austin

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

2011 - 2015

Earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from The University of Texas at Austin from 2011 to 2015.

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