Jayson Salkey
Engineering Manager at Wayve
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJayson Salkey is an engineering manager based in London with 11 years of experience building and leading machine learning teams across streaming, research, and product-focused organisations. He currently leads efforts at the intersection of world models, reward models, and embodied AI at Wayve, after directing generative AI, personalization, and recommendation efforts for global streaming platforms at Peacock and Disney/Hulu. His background blends research roles at Amazon and Microsoft with hands-on engineering at MIT Lincoln Laboratory and Motorola, and is grounded in a strong academic foundation including a PhD in Computer Science from Cornell and an MS in Computational Statistics and Machine Learning from UCL. Jayson excels at translating cutting-edge research into production systems that scale across regions and platforms, and he’s comfortable both setting strategy and diving into model design and tooling. Notably, he has experience accelerating learning systems for embodied agents, a niche that connects his research instincts with product impact. He brings a cross-cultural, multidisciplinary perspective to ML leadership, having delivered solutions across America, China, and Europe.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering at University of FloridaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Cornell UniversityUniversity College London
Spanish, English
Github Skills (19)
distributions9
gaussian9
stochastic-processes8
gaussian-processes8
pytorch7
modular6
web-audio-api4
api3
link-collection3
music3
gpu-acceleration3
wav3
machine-learning3
codebase3
mp32
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
salkj/palette
May 2015 - Apr 2017
Contributions:22 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
salkj/Automated-Curriculum-Learning
Jun 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:48 commits, 1 push in 7 months
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