Kyle Macdonald
Engineering Manager, Machine Learning at DoorDash
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolKyle Macdonald is an engineering leader specializing in machine learning and conversational AI with 11 years of experience, currently managing an ML engineering team at DoorDash after leading NLP efforts for IBM Watsonx Orders. He has a rare blend of academic rigor (PhD in Cognitive Science from Stanford) and product-focused engineering, having driven NLU, dialog, TTS, and ontology systems that increased agent accuracy by 30% and automated over 90% of interactions. Previously he led the McD Tech Labs and Apprente efforts to industrialize drive-thru automation, inventing synthetic-data pipelines and ASR improvements that tackled novel vocabulary and low-resource domains. Kyle mentors engineers and researchers, builds tooling for reproducible experimentation, and bridges deep research on language acquisition with practical ML systems in production.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Psychology, Bachelor's degree, Psychology at Wesleyan UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Cognitive Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Cognitive Science at Stanford University
English, Sign languages
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Github Skills (24)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
kemacdonald/kemacdonald.github.io
Aug 2016 - May 2024
my personal website
Contributions:9 PRs, 146 pushes, 6 branches in 7 years 9 months
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kemacdonald/soc-info
May 2019 - Sep 2019
Contributions:21 commits, 1 PR, 103 pushes in 3 months
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