Michael Skarlinski
Head Of Platform
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Skarlinski is a Head of Platform and engineering/ML leader with 11 years of experience building production-grade AI and data platforms across healthcare and consumer products. He has repeatedly scaled teams and infrastructure—leading data science and platform efforts at WeightWatchers to deploy 30+ ML systems for millions of daily users, then guiding Carrum Health’s data org to enable value-based care. Now based in San Francisco, he’s focused on applied AI for science, currently leading the engineering build of an AI science platform. His background includes a PhD in computational materials science, giving him a rare blend of domain science, simulation expertise, and production ML engineering. Colleagues describe him as infrastructure-first: he hires and mentors across seniority levels while prioritizing pragmatic, deployable systems that bridge research and product.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computational Materials Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computational Materials Science at University of Rochester
Github Skills (16)
science10
ai10
reinforcement-learning7
artificial-intelligence6
relic5
newrelic5
agent4
python-bindings4
python4
security3
modeling2
data-science2
machine-learning2
tantivy2
search-engine2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mskarlin/art_snob
Apr 2023 - Nov 2023
Art Snob infrastructure for scraping, embedding, classifying, and recommending artworks...
Contributions:8 PRs, 10 pushes, 5 branches in 6 months
mskarlin/metadynamics-scripts
Jun 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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