Eric Bolton
Software Engineer at Meta
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Bolton is a software engineer with eight years of experience building production ML and AI systems for newsrooms and consumer platforms, currently contributing to large-scale content relevance and real-time topic infrastructure at Meta. He pairs a dual M.S. in Journalism and Computer Science from Columbia with hands-on ML roles at The Wall Street Journal and applied AI product work—authoring aiportrait.wsj.com and leading multilingual, RAG-based tools for journalists as CTO of NewsWyze. Eric’s background in geosciences from Princeton and early consulting work gives him a multidisciplinary approach to problem solving, blending data-driven modeling with product and stakeholder communication. He’s fluent in French, a skilled draftsman and graphic artist, and has a track record of shipping observable, scalable systems that serve billions of users while improving model interpretability and evaluation.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Journalism and Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Journalism and Computer Science at Columbia UniversityBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences at Princeton University
English, French, Spanish, Dutch
Github Skills (25)
facebook9
ctc9
sequence9
nlp8
sequence-to-sequence8
transformer-architecture8
python8
artificial-intelligence8
pytorch8
machine-learning7
conformer7
natural-language-processing7
todoist4
browser-extension4
chrome4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
nilesc/Long-Structured-Debate-Generation-and-Evaluation
Oct 2018 - Mar 2019
Contributions:55 commits, 21 PRs, 31 pushes in 4 months
edbltn/voter-power
Dec 2018 - Jan 2021
Contributions:40 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
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