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Taylor Mattison

AI Software Engineering Manager

Annandale, VA

taylorjm@vt.edu

540-905-3641

Programming Languages

JVM Languages (Scala/Java)

8 years

Python

5 years

C#

2 years

Web (HTML, CSS, JS)

2 year

Skills and Tools

Cloud (Azure, AWS, Kafka, Splunk)

6 years

Machine Learning (Neural Networks, Clustering, EMR, Spark)

5 year

Databases (PostgreSQL, Marklogic, DynamoDB, ETL)

6 years

Agile Methodology

8 years

Collaboration (Git, Jira, Jupyter)

9 years

Game Engines (Unity, Godot)

4 years

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Professional Experience

Lead Technical Architect & AI/ML Team Manager - Accenture Federal Services
February 2016 - Present

Design, Implement, Test, and Maintain national-scale healthcare projects as a contractor for the Department of Health and Human Services.

Principal Architect of a cloud-native, greenfield Big Data Analytics Platform that uses Machine Learning to identify fraud, scale cloud resources, and monitor production services.


Game Server Owner - Self Employed
June 2017 - Present

Own and operate a globally-ranked public game server and manage a community of over 2,000 registered players.
Responsibilities include server administration, finances, managing staff volunteers and community forums, and making gameplay decisions that impact the playerbase.


HCI Software Engineering Intern - Agilex
June 2015 - August 2015

Developed an innovative web project in a small team which added value to USPS's business.


Security Software Engineering Intern - Kyrus Technologies
June 2014 - August 2014

Individually developed 3 security-related projects on mobile and distributed platforms, including customer-facing code that generated revenue for the company.


Head of Hardware Team - Mirror Worlds Research Project
August 2014 - August 2015

NSF grant funded project exploring interactions between virtual worlds and reality.


Web Tester - Technology-Enhanced Learning and Online Strategies
August 2014 - August 2015

Testing and development of Scholar, Virginia Tech's campus-wide online learning system.


Education

Virginia Tech - B.S. Computer Science
August 2012 - December 2015

Magna Cum Laude, with Minor in Math