Taylor Bird
Senior Principal AI ML Data Architect
Reston, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolTaylor Bird is a Senior Principal AI/ML Data Architect with 11 years of experience building production-scale systems for federal and private clients, now leading mission-focused data solutions at Slalom in the DC market. He has a track record at Excella of architecting high-throughput ML pipelines, identity resolution platforms, and autoscaling MLOps that process millions of records daily and cut operational latency through intelligent automation. A practical GenAI practitioner, Taylor has designed RAG frameworks and foundation-model integrations tailored for federal use cases while driving firm-wide AI strategy, hands-on training, and cross-functional mentorship. His background spans full-stack and enterprise Java development through to deep reinforcement learning study, giving him rare fluency across legacy modernization and cutting-edge ML deployment. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex regulatory and operational constraints into scalable, auditable AI systems that deliver measurable efficiencies.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Oakton High SchoolNanodegree Program Deep Reinforcement Learning, Nanodegree Program Deep Reinforcement Learning at UdacityGeorge Mason UniversityBS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at William & Mary
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Github Skills (69)
openai-gym9
sbt9
actor-critic8
deep-reinforcement-learning8
sbt-plugin8
ai8
hill-climbing8
ml-agents8
python8
charting8
crossfilter8
deep-q-network8
dqn8
ddpg8
machine-learning8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
nsubordin81/synapseflux
Feb 2018 - Jan 2025
a blog site I'm creating to hold research, ideas and musings
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years
blog-sitemusings
nsubordin81/blog.synapseflux.com
Mar 2023 - Mar 2025
blog space for synapseflux site, based on blog-in-a-box repository https://github.com/excellalabs/blog-in-a-box
Contributions:13 PRs, 173 pushes, 9 branches in 2 years
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