Vicki Boykis
Founding ML AI Engineer at Malachyte
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVicki Boykis is a Founding ML/AI Engineer with 12 years of experience designing resilient, reasonable machine learning systems at scale across startups and enterprise teams. She’s built recommendation and retrieval systems, LLM integrations, and production ML platforms at companies including Automattic, Duo Security, and Mozilla.ai, and now leads ML work at Malachyte. Comfortable bridging product, data engineering, and research, she repeatedly moves models from experimentation into robust, maintainable pipelines. Her background spans economics and an MBA to technical certifications, which helps her translate business priorities into measurable ML solutions. Colleagues rely on her for pragmatic architecture choices and for mentoring teams on operationalizing complex models in real-world environments.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) MBA, Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) MBA at Temple UniversityCertificate Computer Science, Certificate Computer Science at Montgomery County Community CollegeBS Economics, BS Economics at Penn State UniversityCloudera
English, Russian, Hebrew, Arabic
Github Skills (71)
parallel10
python10
hyperparameter-optimization10
deep-learning10
automl10
ray10
optimization10
llm-inference10
transformer10
evaluation-framework10
nlp10
nlp-machine-learning10
data-science10
java10
reinforcement-learning10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
veekaybee/what_are_embeddings
Jun 2023 - Nov 2024
A deep dive into embeddings starting from fundamentals
Contributions:7 releases, 15 reviews, 25 PRs in 1 year 5 months
embeddingsmachine-learningmachine-learning-algorithmsnlp-machine-learning
veekaybee/viberary
Oct 2022 - Mar 2023
Good books, good vibes
Contributions:10 releases, 1 review, 79 commits in 4 months
vibessearch-engines
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