Max is a software engineer and new product developer by trade, with a focus on machine learning, Bayesian inference, content discovery, and prototyping.

The bulk of his work as a machine learning engineer was at Foursquare, where he built Foursquare City Guide’s critically acclaimed 10-point venue rating system and the Marsbot app. More recently he led the development of a causality model for foursquare’s Ad Attribution product, and now works at Foursquare’s innovation lab.

Max has spoken at a variety of conferences and universities, including the ACM conference on Recommender Systems, the Cambridge Workshop on Urban Data Science, and Talkabot 2016. He also taught a course on Bayesian Thinking at the Lviv Data Science Summer School.

He holds a masters degree from NYU in Information Systems, and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Yale. He is a former board member of the Yale Alumni Service Corps, and led a volunteer trip to the Fort Mojave Indian Reservation in October 2017.

I'm currently working on newmap.ai, which is a novel data layer and organization system along with a new programming language that I hope to use to create a network of data and algorithms that can make any data company more efficient. I love the craft of statistical engineering and product design, and I hope to use those skills to advance your product.

Experience with: Data Science and Machine Learning, python, python's ML tools: (Numpy, Scipy, my own creations on github, pytorch, pymc3, tensorflow), Markov Chain Monte Carlo, Functional Programming(Scala, Haskell, ML), data pipelines (Hadoop, Scalding, Spark, Luigi), JVM, web server architecture, Bayesian Inference, Causality, Type Theory & Programming Languages, Rapid Prototyping, CI/CD, Location Data, Recommender Systems, MongoDb, MySql/Postgres, sbt, software testing

In addition, I have many talks, publications and a couple of patents to my name, which you can find on my full CV here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/10apz8iFrDCif9Cr9RfzEIq9jqpPOo87e3Z-NE1G-UAQ/edit

And my linkedin profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/max-sklar-b638464/