Lamar Banks

Overview

I lead ML infrastructure at Granite Foods in Philadelphia. Mentored 14 engineers through their first promotion. Learning to sail.

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Experience

1. VP of Engineering

   Dec 2022 - Present
   Granite Foods · 3 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Philadelphia, PA
   • Brought on-call pages for ML platform down from 25 a week to 3.
   • Built the experimentation framework 9 product teams use to ship changes safely.
   • Grew the ML platform team from 4 to 35 engineers.
2. Staff ML Engineer

   Dec 2020 - Dec 2022
   Snowflake · 2 yr · Full-time · Philadelphia, PA
   • Moved the homepage from rules to a learned ranker.
   • Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
3. Senior Engineering Manager

   Oct 2017 - Aug 2020
   Dell Technologies · 2 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Philadelphia, PA
   • Led the migration of 71 services to model serving.
4. ML Engineer

   Aug 2016 - Oct 2017
   Apple · 1 yr 2 mo · Contract · Philadelphia, PA
   • Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
   • Taught SQL to 97 non-analysts.
5. Staff ML Engineer

   May 2013 - Aug 2016
   HubSpot · 3 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Philadelphia, PA
   • Built the recommendations models now used in 11 product decisions a quarter.

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Education

1. Booth School of Business

   MBA, Business Administration
   2004 - 2006
2. Rhode Island School of Design

   BFA, Mathematics
   2000 - 2004