Dillon Pulliam
Managing Machine Learning Engineer at Toyota Connected North America
Dallas, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDillon Pulliam is a Managing Machine Learning Engineer with eight years of experience building and leading research-driven AI teams and products. He has progressed from hands-on research roles at Northrop Grumman and AssemblyAI—where he led development of production NLP features like summarization, topic detection, and content moderation—to founding a fintech SaaS and now managing ML at Toyota Connected North America. Dillon blends deep research expertise (MS ECE from Carnegie Mellon) with product and engineering execution, routinely shipping research monorepos and leading multi-discipline teams across NLP, RL, and research engineering. He brings an entrepreneur’s perspective to enterprise ML, having designed and built a wealth-management backend while navigating finance, operations, and legal realities. Based in Dallas, he’s as comfortable tuning models and code as he is translating technical strategy into scalable business outcomes.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of KentuckyNo degree earned, No degree earned at Transylvania UniversityMaster of Science - MS Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master of Science - MS Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (6)
wikipedia3
wikipedia-api2
pythonic2
api2
python2
typescript1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
JDPulliam/HwArcML_FinalProj
Mar 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 574 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
j-pulliam/j-pulliam.github.io
Jan 2020 - Mar 2025
Contributions:4 PRs, 5 pushes, 4 branches in 5 years 3 months
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