Skyler Wharton
Senior Software Engineer, Anti-Discrimination & Equity Team
United States
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Top SchoolSkyler Wharton is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building ML-driven backend systems focused on measuring and reducing discrimination at scale. At Airbnb they architected and operated Project Lighthouse components—data pipelines, legal-compliance inclusion logic, and an ML classifier that flags potentially discriminatory messaging—blending Java, Python, Airflow, and fastText in production. Their work bridges applied NLP research (NAACL and EMNLP co-authorships) and pragmatic engineering, with a track record of publishing technical explainers to make fairness work reproducible. Passionate about AI/ML ethics, Skyler centers the needs and leadership of marginalized communities in system design, and they helped scale social-impact tech as a founder of Hack4Impact’s chapters.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
B.S.E., Computer Science, GPA: 3.98 / 4.00 (Summa Cum Laude), B.S.E., Computer Science, GPA: 3.98 / 4.00 (Summa Cum Laude) at University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (66)
authentication10
flask10
database10
location-based10
redis10
user-authentication10
user-management10
sqlalchemy10
boilerplate10
gradient-boosting9
acl9
location9
python9
computational-linguistics9
phonetics9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
skylerwharton/dotfiles
Jun 2016 - Mar 2020
Configuration files for zsh, vim, git, etc.
Contributions:6 PRs, 47 pushes, 7 branches in 3 years 10 months
vimzsh-pluginbashconfiguration-filesdotfiles
cis121/course-website-16fa
Aug 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:24 PRs, 36 pushes, 23 branches in 4 months
upennreactfalljavascriptcis
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