Cian Hayes
Sr Staff Software Engineer at Equilibrium Energy
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCian Hayes is a Sr. Staff Software Engineer with deep expertise in ML infrastructure, distributed systems, and microservices, honed over 16 years at Microsoft where he led incubation of ML-powered features for the Edge browser and scaled training pipelines to support hundreds of jobs daily. He combines hands-on engineering—translating academic papers and open-source projects into production code—with pragmatic leadership and mentorship, favoring elegant, robust solutions to intellectually challenging problems. After a deliberate year-long career break running an art gallery, he returned to engineering with fresh perspective and curiosity, now focused on services and ML in resource-constrained environments. Based in Redmond, he brings a rare mix of production-scale experience in federated learning and service scalability plus a people-first leadership style that values openness, kindness, and candid conversations.
8 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, First Class Honours, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, First Class Honours at University College Cork
English, French, Portuguese
Github Skills (13)
keras10
pytorch10
machine-learning10
ai-framework10
accelerator10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
high-performance10
onnx10
hardware-acceleration10
scikit-learn10
neural-network9
cross-platform9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
cianmhayes/cloud_gen_study
Oct 2019 - Mar 2024
Contributions:15 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 5 months
cianmhayes/monocian
Dec 2022 - Mar 2024
Contributions:5 PRs, 15 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 3 months
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