Lamar Payson
Software Engineering Manager at BOLD
Atlanta Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLamar Payson is a seasoned software engineering manager with 14 years of experience building and scaling ML and GenAI systems, currently leading platform and recommendation engineering at BOLD in the Atlanta area. He has deep hands-on expertise moving legacy data and inference stacks to cloud-native architectures—designing hybrid ANN + metadata job recommendation systems, migrating ML workflows to AWS-native tools, and shifting inference from ECS to GPU-backed Kubernetes. At CareerBuilder he rose from engineer to manager while operating a portfolio of 30+ microservices serving 50M+ daily requests, replacing costly vendors with in-house LLM parsers and enabling conversational job search via LangChain-based chat. He blends an academic background in computer science, mathematics, and NLP with practical skills in Java, Python, Airflow, EMR, Iceberg, OpenSearch, and Metaflow, and is known for turning research-grade models into reliable, cost-effective production services. A not-obvious strength: he pairs linguistics training with ML engineering, which informs more accurate parsing and semantic matching in resume and job systems.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Natural Language Processing, Natural Language Processing at Free University of Bozen-BolzanoNatural Language Processing, Natural Language Processing at Universität des SaarlandesBachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science & Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science & Mathematics at University of Iowa
Github Skills (37)
science10
data-science9
python9
machine-learning9
rest7
parsing7
api7
rest-api7
api-documentation6
swagger6
openapi5
swagger-ui5
code-generator5
javascript4
nodejs4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
glpayson/intellij-settings
Oct 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:64 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
careerbuilder/DataScienceAPIDocumentation
Aug 2016 - Oct 2022
Documentation for all services operated by Data Science Application Development
Contributions:34 reviews, 136 commits, 50 PRs in 6 years 2 months
pythonsciencedata-sciencemachine-learningapplication-development
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