Payton Jones
Staff Machine Learning Engineer at MyFitnessPal
Issaquah, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolPayton Jones is a Staff Machine Learning Engineer with a Harvard PhD in Experimental Psychopathology and nine years of experience translating rigorous research into production ML systems. He has led ML and data science efforts across recommendation and ad-tech domains, scaling deep learning recommenders to millions of users and optimizing experimental pipelines that informed executive decisions. At Moloco he managed analytics over billions of ad records and ran experiments impacting eight-figure ad spend, and now applies that product-scale expertise at MyFitnessPal. Payton combines psychometrics and graph-theoretic approaches from his academic work to design more interpretable and user-centered models. He’s equally comfortable shipping low-latency, high-throughput services and shaping metric-driven culture through centralized A/B testing frameworks. Based in Issaquah, WA, he brings a scientist’s rigor to pragmatic engineering trade-offs, often surfacing measurement innovations that aren’t obvious from standard ML playbooks.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Experimental Psychopathology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Experimental Psychopathology at Harvard UniversityBachelor's Degree Psychology, Bachelor's Degree Psychology at Brigham Young University
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Github Skills (22)
traceroute9
napalm8
network-automation8
ospf8
statistics8
network-analysis8
ips7
gnuplot7
network-monitoring7
nlp6
corpus6
rstudio6
r6
botnet5
routines4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
paytonjjones/NetworkComparisonTest
May 2017 - Dec 2021
Statistical comparison of two networks with respect to global strength
Contributions:2 PRs, 21 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 7 months
statisticscomparisonstatisticalstrengthgnuplot
paytonjjones/networktree
Oct 2018 - Sep 2022
Contributions:2 releases, 84 commits, 64 pushes in 3 years 10 months
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