Sky Kistler
Staff Software Engineer at Reddit, Inc.
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSky Kistler is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building data-driven systems that power recommendations, retention, NLP, credit scoring, image recognition, and portfolio analysis. Based in New York, Sky has moved from founding a freelance engineering shop to senior data and platform roles at Disney Streaming and now leads engineering at Reddit, blending machine learning expertise with pragmatic software architecture. He’s known for building production-grade pipelines and models from the ground up and for enabling teams and decision-makers through clear insights and technical leadership. Comfortable across the stack, Sky pairs data engineering rigor with algorithmic thinking to deliver scalable, reliable systems at internet scale. An uncommon strength is his track record of translating domain needs into measurable product outcomes, not just prototypes.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at New College of Florida
English
Github Skills (35)
rabbitmq9
reddit9
python-client8
gevent8
benchmarking8
kafka8
benchmark8
rocketmq7
harmony7
pulsar7
activemq-artemis7
python7
google-cloud-platform6
cloud-platform5
google-cloud5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
skykistler/immune-inspired-virus-detection
Jan 2016 - Jan 2022
Contributions:2 pushes in 6 years
skykistler/smudgr
Dec 2015 - Sep 2018
smudge the pixels
Contributions:55 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 2 years 10 months
pixels
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