Clayton Thorrez
Member Of The Technical Staff at Arena
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolClayton Thorrez is a data scientist and applied ML researcher with nine years of experience building applied NLP and LLM tooling at Microsoft, Apple, and startups; he now works as a Member of the Technical Staff focused on leaderboard and ranking systems at Arena. He specializes in paired comparison and rating-system methods for preference modeling, model evaluation, and post-training calibration, and brings that expertise to both production ML products and niche analyses of esports competitions. Clayton’s work spans evaluation pipelines for LLMs and applied ML in collaboration features like Outlook and Teams, and he has published practical datasets and demos such as EsportsBench and the Riix project. Comfortable moving between research and engineering, he blends statistical rigor with production mindset—often using competitive-sports data as a creative testbed for rating algorithms.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Hillsdale AcademyBachelor of Science in Engineering (BSE) Computer Science Data Science, Bachelor of Science in Engineering (BSE) Computer Science Data Science at University of Michigan College of EngineeringMaster's of Science Computer Science, Master's of Science Computer Science at University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Github Skills (45)
robot10
robotics9
simulation9
openai-gym9
reinforcement-learning8
pytorch7
linter7
static-analysis7
rating-system7
python7
stylelint7
deep-reinforcement-learning7
rust6
jit6
openai6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
cthorrez/riix
Jan 2024 - Feb 2025
Contributions:16 releases, 128 pushes, 37 tags in 1 year
cthorrez/cod_scoreboards
Sep 2021 - Jul 2022
Contributions:11 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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