Skylar Payne
Owner at Wicked Data LLC
Santa Monica, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSkylar Payne is a seasoned AI and data engineering leader with 12 years of experience building production ML systems at Google, LinkedIn, and startups, now founder of Wicked Data helping teams tame messy data. He excels at turning research-grade models into reliable, monitored products—designing feature serving, experiment infrastructure, and data warehouses that cut costs and reduce 3 AM incidents. At HealthRhythms and Mindstrong he scaled teams and processes (True North metrics, dashboard trees, design control) to shift organizations from firefighting to predictable delivery. Known for shipping recommendation and personalization platforms that moved core metrics double digits, he pairs hands-on engineering with strategic product storytelling for executives and boards. Based in Santa Monica, he brings an engineer’s attention to reproducibility and a founder’s appetite for practical, revenue-driving solutions.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bakersfield CollegeBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.987, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.987 at University of California, Irvine
Github Skills (80)
apache-spark10
python10
model-management10
etl10
automation10
mlops10
orchestration10
mlflow10
scheduler10
ml10
ai10
monitor10
data-science10
dvc10
apache10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
skylarbpayne/CESPong
Jul 2013 - Aug 2013
Contributions:118 commits in 1 month
skylarbpayne/mlflow
Oct 2020 - Sep 2022
Open source platform for the machine learning lifecycle
Contributions:1 PR, 26 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 10 months
pythonlifecyclemlmachine-learningmodel-management
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