Peter Skipper
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at SpotHero
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolPeter Skipper is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer with 11 years of experience building production ML systems across startups and enterprise environments. He has led teams and shipped models for churn prediction, NLP item classification, and document-matching pipelines, operationalizing PyTorch and TensorFlow models on AWS with automated testing and monitoring. His background blends hands-on model development, API engineering, and team coaching—having led a 20-person data science team and created trainings on software engineering best practices. Early career teaching roles and a BA in English combined with an MS in Statistics give him uncommon strength in communicating complex technical ideas to nontechnical stakeholders. Currently at SpotHero after three years at Unlearn.AI, he excels at turning research-level models into reliable, auditable services that scale to millions of users.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los AngelesBA English, BA English at Pomona College
Spanish
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Github Skills (53)
biology9
pytorch9
notebook9
python9
drug-discovery9
implicit9
jupyter-notebook9
nlp9
speech-recognition8
science8
deep-learning8
api8
discovery8
chemistry8
natural-language-processing8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
peterskipper/pizzabutton
Jan 2018 - Aug 2018
Put a Pizza in your Jupyter Notebook
Contributions:31 commits, 9 PRs, 15 pushes in 6 months
jupyterlab-extensionjupyter-notebooknotebookjupyterlabjupyter
peterskipper/dotfiles
May 2018 - Apr 2021
Version Control your environment
Contributions:4 PRs, 6 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 11 months
dotfilesversion-control
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