Michael Fairley
Co-Founder And CTO at Stealth Startup
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Fairley is a machine learning leader and PhD-trained operations researcher who builds data-driven products that scale—from welfare-changing health policy research cited in U.S. legislation to production ML systems used across hundreds of cities. As Uber’s pricing and marketplace lead, he designed deep-learning pricing models and policy frameworks that drove over $100M in annual incremental bookings, reduced millions of complaints, and powered flagship products like Price Lock Pass. Now co-founder and CTO at a stealth startup in Madison, he combines causal inference, optimization, and production ML tooling experience to ship high-impact features end-to-end. Notably, his academic work informed national clinical guidelines and earned recognition as the most impactful cost-effectiveness paper in health policy in 2022, reflecting a rare blend of rigorous research and product execution.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Christ's College, CanterburyBachelor of Engineering (Honours) Engineering Science, Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) Engineering Science at University of AucklandDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Management Science and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University
Github Skills (140)
science10
julia10
pylint10
machine-learning10
intellisense10
convex-optimization9
statistics9
root-finding9
programming-language9
python9
numerical-optimization9
optimization9
graph-convolutional-networks9
visualization9
pytorch9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
MFairley/piazza-resources-downloader
Mar 2016 - Oct 2017
Contributions:4 pushes in 1 year 7 months
downloaderpython
kaipingchen/kaipingchen
Feb 2025 - Mar 2025
Contributions:11 pushes in 19 days
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