Sydney Wong
Manager, Machine Learning & Engineering at Palo Alto Networks
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSydney Wong is a Machine Learning Engineering leader with 12 years of experience, currently managing ML and engineering teams at Palo Alto Networks in the San Francisco Bay Area. She rose through technical roles at the same company—from data scientist and staff engineer to principal and now manager—bringing deep product and production ML experience in cyber risk and security domains. Her background in statistics (UC Berkeley) and a minor in computer science underpins a data-driven approach to building scalable, reliable ML systems for enterprise security. Sydney combines hands-on model and pipeline development with team leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and operationalizing ML at scale. She has a track record of rapidly advancing within fast-growing teams and translating analytic insights into production features that improve threat detection and risk visibility. Outside of formal titles, her career shows a consistent focus on turning research-level methods into deployable, auditable systems for security-conscious customers.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Statistics with a Minor in Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Statistics with a Minor in Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
English, Arabic, Spanish, Chinese
Github Skills (15)
jupyter-notebook7
fundamentals6
text-mining6
machine-learning6
python6
data-analysis5
data-science5
r-package5
javascript4
topic-modeling4
r4
visualization3
latent-dirichlet-allocation3
lda3
data-visualization2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
sydneymwong/sydneymwong.github.io
Jul 2014 - Dec 2018
Contributions:252 commits, 129 pushes in 4 years 5 months
sydneymwong/flaming-dubstep
Jul 2015 - Jun 2018
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
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