I am a Machine Learning Engineer Leader with a three-dimensional reflective mindset and an insatiable hunger for learning. I’m a seasoned software engineer/architect/leader, skilled in API microservices and data science including classic and Bayesian statistics, linear algebra, regression, NLP, and weak supervision labeling. I champion technical leadership, mentoring and advocating for teammates. I focus on MLOps with emphasis on model serving, monitoring for decay (data and concept drift), explainability, data bias and governance including obfuscating PII data, and feature engineering/data transformation pipelines for model inference.

Roger Lynn Scott

I am a Machine Learning Engineer Leader with a three-dimensional reflective mindset and an insatiable hunger for learning. I’m a seasoned software engineer/architect/leader, skilled in API microservices and data science including classic and Bayesian statistics, linear algebra, regression, NLP, and weak supervision labeling. I champion technical leadership, mentoring and advocating for teammates. I focus on MLOps with emphasis on model serving, monitoring for decay (data and concept drift), explainability, data bias and governance including obfuscating PII data, and feature engineering/data transformation pipelines for model inference.

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I am a Machine Learning Engineer Leader with a three-dimensional reflective mindset and an insatiable hunger for learning. I’m a seasoned software engineer/architect/leader, skilled in API microservices and data science including classic and Bayesian statistics, linear algebra, regression, NLP, and weak supervision labeling.

I champion technical leadership, mentoring and advocating for teammates. I focus on MLOps with emphasis on model serving, monitoring for decay (data and concept drift), explainability, data bias and governance including obfuscating PII data, and feature engineering/data transformation pipelines for model inference.

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Work Experience

Senior Manager, AI Services Lead at Anaconda
June 1, 2025 - October 27, 2025
Led a team for the Anaconda AI Core platform that imported, quantized and provided inference endpoints for LLMs for Generative AI solutions and prompt engineering. Platform deployed on Kubernetes via Python-based operators; PostgreSQL RDMS and embeddings for RAG datasets. Managed 9 team members across senior and mid-level engineers, platform engineers and full-stack engineers.
Machine Learning Engineer/MlOps Manager at Mastercard
December 1, 2024 - October 27, 2025
Led a team that created a Python service to serve data science models for transaction settlement prediction. Designed an MlOps platform including data transformation, ML model orchestration, A/B and Multi-Arm bandit testing and model explainability using SHAP values, model monitoring for decay, outlier detection and threat detection. Coordinated with data scientists on requirements for product integration. Researched NLP Named Entity Recognition for redacting PII data. Explored word embeddings vs character embeddings for weak supervision. Used Databricks for data lake and big data queries against S3, data governance, and delta tables. Advised executives on architectural direction using industry-standard technologies and practices.
Big Data Architect/Lead at Jane.com
October 1, 2021 - October 27, 2025
Integrated Segment to extract e-commerce events for consumption by BigQuery, Google Analytics and S3. Wrote analytical SQL queries in BigQuery. Created Presto DDL tables in AWS Athena; used AWS Glue to generate Athena DDLs for analysis. Built pipelines with Airflow, Kinesis, Kinesis Firehose and RabbitMQ; leveraged AWS EMR (Hadoop) and PySpark. Configured attribution modeling in Google Analytics.
Senior Architect/Technical Director/Product Management at Taskeasy .com
August 31, 2019 - October 27, 2025
Directed rebuilding of core infrastructure, established corporate technology standards for Java Spring Boot microservices, CI/CD, and a hybrid AWS environment. Migrated messaging from Kafka to SQS; mentored engineers in Java and Python services; designed production solutions using classification algorithms; led technology roadmap discussions with executives.
Manager/Architect at Sling TV (contractor)
November 30, 2017 - October 27, 2025
Built a big data pipeline from the ground up to collect viewer statistics (4TB/day). Designed data enrichment and data warehousing with a team of 8 engineers using Java, Kafka, and Confluent KStreams/KTables; evaluated Confluent platform. Created web services in Java Spring Boot; worked with HDFS and Hive (SQL).
Senior Big Data Engineer/Project Lead at Think Big Analytics
February 28, 2015 - October 27, 2025
Professional services designing big data solutions for clients using Hadoop ecosystems (Hortonworks/Cloudera), including Hive SQL and SerDes, HBase, Java Map/Reduce, Java Cassandra client code. Designed ETL and cloud deployments on AWS, Pivotal Cloud Foundry and Azure; utilized JMS-based Java messaging, Hadoop, Kafka, KStreams, KTables and Confluent KSQL; utilized cloud storage (S3, Azure Blob).
Big Data Architect at InsideSales.com
September 1, 2013 - October 27, 2025
Architected big data solutions using Hadoop, HBase, Hive and related ecosystem technologies. Created data pulls from MySQL, Salesforce, and other sources; designed HBase data stores; implemented Hadoop-based map/reduce pipelines; authored custom Hive SQL and Java SerDes; made data accessible via services and microservices; evaluated tools for data scientists.
Senior Software Engineer at FamilySearch (LDS Church)
September 1, 2013 - October 27, 2025
Designed and developed a Windows desktop C# application to audit digital images; retrieved data via RESTful endpoints and stored results in MySQL. Worked on FamilySearch.org backend services in Java J2EE/Hibernate; supported search, merge, delete and PDF generation of family history records.

Education

M.S Computer Science - Data Science at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
January 11, 2030 - January 1, 2017
B.S Computer Science at Weber State University
January 11, 2030 - January 1, 1993

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Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Financial Services, Media & Entertainment, Professional Services, Education