Chelsea Troy
Senior Staff Software Engineer, Data Platform And Machine Learning Operations
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolChelsea Troy is a Senior Staff Software Engineer based in Chicago with 11 years of experience building data platforms and MLOps at scale, currently leading Mozilla’s machine learning operations strategy and migrations to unified GCP stacks. She blends hands-on implementation—writing core platform code and owning vendor relationships—with organizational work like documenting workflows, interview design, and metrics that improve cross-team reliability. A seasoned educator and communicator, she teaches graduate CS courses at the University of Chicago and authors technical content and courses for O’Reilly on AI-augmented engineering and technical debt. Chelsea contributes to open-source language work (notably backend contributions to the Roc functional language) and has a track record of mission-oriented consulting for research and environmental projects. Colleagues rely on her to translate ambiguous requirements into pragmatic, auditable systems and to spot the “boring but critical” fixes that keep production ML healthy.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree International Relations , Bachelor's degree International Relations at University of Pennsylvania
English, Spanish, Arabic
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Github Skills (9)
functional-programming10
rust10
language-design10
functional-programming-language10
manipulate10
lists10
roc-lang10
functional10
compiler-development9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
roc-lang/roc
Oct 2021 - Jan 2022
A fast, friendly, functional language.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:35 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Chelsea primarily contributed to the development of the Roc programming language. They implemented the `divCeil` function, including adding its type definition, implementing it from a Zig implementation, and integrating it into the compiler. Furthermore, the user added `dropLast` functionality to the list manipulation features and performed code formatting. They also worked on List.max builtin and string character parsing.
functional-languagefunctional-programmingrustroccompiler
chelseatroy/raft
Dec 2019 - Aug 2021
Contributions:78 commits, 47 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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