Max Sklar
Co-Founder at Hopscotch Labs
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMax Sklar is a co-founder and seasoned software engineer with 14 years of experience building location-aware consumer products, machine learning systems, and scalable search pipelines. Based in New York, he has led ML and product work at Foursquare—driving attribution methodology and Marsbot personalization—and now builds a new AI/AR location product out of Betaworks’ lab while teaching data structures at NYU. His background spans algorithmic design, functional and object-oriented programming, and practical production engineering across languages from Python and Java to C++ and JavaScript. A former talk radio host and podcast creator, he brings a rare mix of technical rigor, product intuition, and public-facing communication skills that help translate complex models into usable features.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
MS Information Systems, MS Information Systems at New York UniversityBS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Yale University
Github Skills (29)
prediction-model10
statistical-inference10
density-estimation10
bayesian10
experimental-design9
bayesian-inference9
python8
inference8
machine-learning8
cassandra7
windows-app7
database6
sql-server6
sql6
firebird6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
maxsklar/BayesPy
Jun 2012 - Dec 2022
Bayesian Inference Tools in Python
Contributions:88 commits, 2 PRs, 28 pushes in 10 years 7 months
pythonbayesian-inferenceinferencestatistical-inferencemachine-learning
maxsklar/LocalMaximum
Feb 2018 - Aug 2020
Contributions:13 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
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