About

Colin Taylor is a highly skilled software engineer and data scientist with over 9 years of relevant experience in the industry. He is currently employed as a Software Engineer at Facebook, where he works as a machine learning engineer on the ads ranking team. Colin aspires to transform technology products through machine learning systems and has a strong passion for using his skills to create innovative solutions. Prior to joining Facebook, Colin was the CTO and co-founder of Copilots in Care, a healthcare startup that aimed to help patients create end-of-life care plans. He managed the development of the company's consumer-facing and employee-facing web applications and negotiated and closed a $75k contract with a chronic special needs health insurer. Colin also performed internal security audits and developed the company's disaster recovery plan in accordance with HIPAA. He created a targeting algorithm to identify high-risk patients based on their insurance claims data and integrated the web application and CRM to generate patient progress snapshots and product analytics. Colin has also worked as a Software Engineer and Technical Lead at Ginger.io, where he led a cross-functional team of five to develop an analytics tool delivering data-triggered insights. He built a new hiring pipeline as the hiring manager of the company's engineering role and integrated real-time data science models into the web product. Colin was responsible for transitioning deprecated client accounts and updating core data models. Colin holds a Master's Degree in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science and a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also attended Plano West Senior High School. Colin has a strong technical skill set, including expertise in software engineering, ML, web development, data science, research science, Python, Django, and AngularJS. Overall, Colin is a highly motivated and skilled software engineer and data scientist with a passion for using his skills to create innovative solutions. He has a proven track record of success in the industry and is highly respected by his colleagues and peers.