Miles Olson
Senior Software Engineer at Meta
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMiles Olson is a senior software engineer with 10 years of experience, currently on Meta's Adaptive Experimentation team in New York where he helps build and harden the Ax platform. He specializes in backend work that prioritizes data integrity and reproducibility—recent contributions include surfacing best-trial indices in the Service API, persisting reduced-state generator runs, and fixing critical data truncation and validation bugs. His background spans automation for global CPU/cache quotas, rights-management inspection tools, and interactive data visualizations for a Rice University historical research project, demonstrating fluency across infrastructure and user-facing analytics. Pragmatic and product-minded (and with a smiley GitHub bio), he focuses on turning complex experimentation requirements into reliable, production-ready tooling.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Computational and Applied Mathematics, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Computational and Applied Mathematics at Rice UniversityAragon High School
Github Skills (15)
data-storage10
python10
debug9
unit-testing9
debugging9
api8
algorithms8
data-structures8
algorithm8
api-doc8
datastructure8
datastructures8
evaluation7
eval7
linear-algebra6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
facebook/Ax
Sep 2021 - Jan 2023
Adaptive Experimentation Platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 releases, 1 review, 229 commits in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Miles primarily contributed to improving the Ax adaptive experimentation platform. Their commits focused on fixing discrepancies in tutorial text, adding validation against constraints on various parameters, and resolving a bug that was causing data to be incorrectly truncated in the experiment objects. They also implemented enhancements related to data storage, including the ability to save reduced state generator runs, and surfacing the best trial index in the Service API.
experimentationadaptivesimulationadaptive-experimentation-platformexperimentation-platform
mpolson64/.dotfiles
Nov 2015 - Feb 2019
Contributions:72 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
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