Miles Olson
Senior Software Engineer at Meta
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolMiles Olson is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience focused on back-end systems and adaptive experimentation at Meta, where he contributes to the widely used Facebook/Ax platform for optimizing experiments. He blends production engineering with academic rigor—publishing research on combinatorial disjunctive constraints for obstacle avoidance and building interactive data visualizations for a large historical dataset at Rice University. Comfortable across systems, tooling, and research code, Miles has a track record of fixing subtle data bugs, improving storage and validation logic, and surfacing actionable signals in service APIs. Based in New York, he pairs practical product impact with open-source contributions and a curiosity for translating complex constraints into robust, testable software.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science Computational and Applied Mathematics, Bachelor's degree Computer Science Computational and Applied Mathematics at Rice University
Github Skills (14)
data-storage10
python10
debug9
unit-testing9
debugging9
api8
algorithms8
data-structures8
algorithm8
data-structure8
apidoc8
evaluation7
eval7
linear-algebra6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
facebook/Ax
Sep 2021 - Jan 2023
Adaptive Experimentation Platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 releases, 1 review, 229 commits in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Miles primarily contributed to improving the Ax adaptive experimentation platform. Their commits focused on fixing discrepancies in tutorial text, adding validation against constraints on various parameters, and resolving a bug that was causing data to be incorrectly truncated in the experiment objects. They also implemented enhancements related to data storage, including the ability to save reduced state generator runs, and surfacing the best trial index in the Service API.
experimentationadaptivesimulationadaptive-experimentation-platformexperimentation-platform
mpolson64/.dotfiles
Nov 2015 - Feb 2019
Contributions:72 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
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