Ian Wesley-smith
Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Bluesky Social
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolIan Wesley-smith is a Staff Machine Learning Engineer in Seattle with 11 years of experience building production ML and recommendation systems across startups and major platforms. He has led cross-functional teams at Discord and Mozilla to design and ship content-ranking and discovery services that measurably increased engagement, and he prototypes product-market ML solutions as a founder (refrain.ai) that blend LLMs with traditional planning algorithms for executable low-code outputs. His background includes systems and security work at Amazon and Microsoft, giving him a rare mix of scalable ML engineering, backend systems design, and production security experience. At Bluesky he continues to operate at the intersection of research-quality models and deployable services, and his academic work at the University of Washington underpins a strong foundation in recommender systems and network analysis. A consistent thread through his career is turning complex ML research into reliable, measurable product features that move user metrics.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Information Science/Studies, Master of Science - MS, Information Science/Studies at University of WashingtonB.S., Computer Science, minor in Math, B.S., Computer Science, minor in Math at Louisiana State University
Github Skills (64)
python10
machine-learning10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
data-science9
ml9
flask-extensions9
social-networking9
rest9
deep-neural-networks9
parsing9
neural-network9
serve9
rest-api9
endpoint9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
iwsmith/crosswalk
May 2018 - Sep 2024
crossXwalk
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 87 pushes in 6 years 5 months
jevinw/rec_utilities
Aug 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:4 PRs, 90 pushes, 2 tags in 1 year 5 months
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