Brent Payne
Sr. Manager, Machine Learning Applications, Personalization
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrent Payne is a seasoned machine learning leader with 14+ years of experience building production personalization systems, currently opening and managing ML applications teams in NYC and Seattle for Amazon. He blends hands-on engineering roots—evidenced by open-source contributions optimizing core Node.js stream primitives—with strategic product leadership from co-founding ML-forward startups and leading ML teams at ad-tech and B2B companies. Brent's career spans research, systems engineering, and go-to-market pivots, giving him a rare fluency in turning ML research into scalable, user-facing recommendations. He holds an M.S. in Artificial Intelligence from UCSD and is known for tackling performance and edge-case robustness in both legacy and modern runtime environments.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
University of California San DiegoJohns Hopkins UniversityBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Kentucky
Github Skills (10)
nodejs10
javascript10
functional-programming10
optimization9
optimisation9
numerical-optimization9
algorithm9
unit-testing9
code-optimization9
algorithms9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
caolan/highland
Apr 2015 - May 2015
High-level streams library for Node.js and the browser
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 1 PR, 22 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Brent primarily focused on optimizing and refactoring the `pick` and `pickBy` methods within the `highland` streams library. They reduced the runtime complexity of these methods and reimplemented them using more efficient techniques like `map` and `curry`. The user also addressed edge cases by updating tests and handling non-enumerable properties. Furthermore, they updated the code to work correctly in both ES5 and ES3 environments.
browsernode-jsjavascripthigh-levelstreams
brentpayne/kennyg
Mar 2014 - Oct 2014
Contributions:19 commits in 6 months
saxjazzysax-parserneedparser
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