Joy Payton
Director, AI Readiness And Enablement at O'Reilly Media
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolJoy Payton is a Director of AI Readiness and Enablement with 11 years of experience helping Fortune 100 companies, health systems, and nonprofits operationalize AI, data pipelines, and reproducible research practices. She combines hands-on data engineering and cloud expertise (AWS, GCP, BigQuery) with curriculum design and mentorship, having trained hundreds of biomedical professionals and led NIH-funded data literacy initiatives. Her background spans production engineering, web development, and global health informatics—delivering education and tooling for longitudinal research, interoperability, and responsible AI across multilingual settings. A seasoned technical reviewer and instructor for O’Reilly, she translates complex ML/AI and data governance concepts into practical workflows and training materials. Uncommonly, her career bridges deep technical craft (from assembler and systems programming to containerized CI/CD) with a strong focus on capacity building in underrepresented communities.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Data Science, Master of Science (MS) Data Science at The City University of New YorkSTB / Lic. Estudios Eclesiásticos Theology, STB / Lic. Estudios Eclesiásticos Theology at Universidad Pontificia de ComillasPostbaccalaureate Certificate Information Systems Security, Postbaccalaureate Certificate Information Systems Security at The Pennsylvania State UniversityBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Philosophy and Mathematics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Philosophy and Mathematics at Agnes Scott College
English, Spanish, Spanish
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Github Skills (72)
jekyll10
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
pm0kjp/mapping-geographic-data-in-r
Mar 2019 - Jun 2021
Contributions:15 commits, 31 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
pm0kjp/katacoda-scenarios
Feb 2020 - Dec 2021
Katacoda Scenarios
Contributions:4 PRs, 47 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 9 months
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