Patrick Hayes

p@pnullhay.es
http://patrickhay.es/
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I'm a software engineer at Airtable. I was previously a cofounder at SigOpt, and have been an engineer at YouTube and Foursquare. I graduated from the University of Waterloo, where I had rewarding internships at tech companies both large and small.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

  • Over twelve years of experience with commercial web development and distributed systems
  • Experienced leader of teams of software and research engineers
  • Programming: Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, C/C++, Java, Scala, Ruby, PHP, Lisp, Haskell
  • Technologies: React, AWS, Postgres, MySQL, Android, iOS, Rails, CSS, Django, Mongo
  • Fields: Architecture, Machine Learning, Frontend, Optimization, Distributed Systems, Algorithms

Work Experience

Senior Staff Software Engineer, Airtable, 2023–present

  • Tech Lead for Airtable's Developer Infrastructure team
  • Responsible for driving down CI times and costs, saving thousands of eng-hours / month
  • Built tooling to accelerate local workflows for development, typechecking, and testing

Senior Staff Software Engineer, YouTube, 2021–2023

  • Tech lead for YouTube's 180-person Developer Experience team
  • Architect and technical mentor for frontend, backend, and infrastructure teams
  • Developed test infrastructure for thousands of engineers at YouTube

Cofounder & CTO, SigOpt, 2014–2021

  • Founder and architect at SigOpt, which was acquired by Intel in Oct 2020
  • Inventor of SigOpt's patented distributed optimization platform for machine learning models
  • Full-stack engineer with experience managing frontend, backend, and research staff
  • Y Combinator alumni, Winter 2015

Senior Software Engineer, Foursquare, 2012–2014

  • Developed passive awareness notifications to remind users of the best content nearby
  • Built the tips timeline, for discovering tips from people and tastes you follow
  • Created Foursquare expertise, for recognizing and rewarding city and neighborhood experts

Internships, 2008–2012

  • Bloomberg, Financial Software Developer, 2011
  • Wish, Research Engineer, 2011
  • Facebook, Software Engineer, 2010
  • Sybase, User Interface Developer, 2009
  • BlackBerry, Automation Tools Developer, 2008

Education

Bachelor of Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Computer Science/Pure Mathematics Double Honours, 2012

  • Graduated with Distinction; Cumulative average: 90%; Major average: 94%
  • Dean's Honours List, University of Waterloo, 2007–2012
  • Excellent Academic Standing, University of Waterloo, 2007–2012
  • St. Jerome's University President's Scholarship, University of Waterloo, 2007–2009

Awards

Young Alumni Achievement Award, University of Waterloo, Faculty of Mathematics, 2017

https://uwaterloo.ca/math/alumni-friends/faculty-mathematics-alumni-awards/gallery-past-recipients/recipients-faculty-mathematics-alumni-achievement-medal

Articles

Scaling TypeScript to thousands of projects. Airtable Eng Blog, 2024

https://medium.com/airtable-eng/a-leap-in-the-evolution-of-airtables-codebase-scaling-typescript-to-thousands-of-projects-734326c3a553

A Strategy for Ranking Optimization Methods using Multiple Criteria. Proceedings of the Workshop on Automatic Machine Learning, 2016

http://proceedings.mlr.press/v64/dewancker_strategy_2016.pdf

Evaluation System for a Bayesian Optimization Service. ML Systems Workshop at ICML, 2016

http://arxiv.org/abs/1605.06170

A Stratified Analysis of Bayesian Optimization Methods. AutoML Workshop at ICML, 2016

http://arxiv.org/abs/1603.09441

Talks

Accelerating Model Development by Reducing Operational Barriers, NVIDIA GTC, 2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMYF9fvK5KQ

Insights for Deep Learning Optimization, Open Data Science Conference, 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj3n2RukuDM

Lessons Learned for Founding a Startup, University of Waterloo, 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjKV6aiwbOk

Optimizing Everything with Python, Talk Python To Me Podcast, 2016

https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/51/sigopt-optimizing-everything-with-python

Selected Open Source Contributions

SigOpt Python API Client, SigOpt

https://github.com/wikimedia/WiktionaryMobile

  • Original developer for SigOpt's Python API client.

Wiktionary Mobile App, Wikimedia Foundation

https://github.com/wikimedia/WiktionaryMobile

  • Core developer of the official Wiktionary mobile app for Android/iOS
  • Worked on a remote team with 3 undergraduate students from schools across Canada

Patents

Systems and methods implementing an intelligent optimization platform. SigOpt, 2019

https://patents.google.com/patent/US10217061B2

Systems and methods for implementing an intelligent application program interface for an intelligent optimization platform. SigOpt, 2019

https://patents.google.com/patent/US10282237B1

Systems and methods for implementing an intelligent machine learning optimization platform for multiple tuning criteria. SigOpt, 2020

https://patents.google.com/patent/US10528891B1/en

Systems and methods for an accelerated tuning of hyperparameters of a model using a machine learning-based tuning service. SigOpt, 2020

https://patents.google.com/patent/US20200019888A1/en

Systems and methods for tuning hyperparameters of a model and advanced curtailment of a training of the model. SigOpt, 2021

https://patents.google.com/patent/US11157812B2

System and method for communicating information in a location-based system. Foursquare, 2022

https://patents.google.com/patent/EP3576449B1

Systems and methods implementing an intelligent machine learning tuning system providing multiple tuned hyperparameter solutions. SigOpt, 2024

https://patents.google.com/patent/US11966860B2