# Skylar Nam

> SWE @ Microsoft | AI @ Penn

Location: Greater Seattle Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/skylarnam

☀️ SWE @ Microsoft
🌙 MSE-AI @ Penn

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Microsoft
Jan 2024 – Present | Redmond, Washington, United States

### Software Engineer II @ Microsoft
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | Redmond, Washington, United States
Developer Division (DevDiv) - Visual Studio IDE Platform and Experience - VS Setup

### Software Engineer @ Microsoft
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Redmond, WA
Visual Studio - Setup Core (Installer Engine & UI)
• C#, .NET, WPF, TypeScript, Kusto

Cloud & Enterprise - Azure Intelligence Platform (AIP)
• Scala, Hive, Spark, C#, Kusto, ADF, SQL Server, HdInsight, Power BI, VSTF

### CSE 247R Teaching Assistant @ Washington University in St. Louis
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | St. Louis, MO
Teaching Assistant for CSE 247R: Data Structures and Algorithms Seminar

• Helped students to solve challenging algorithm questions using various data structures and programming concepts such as arrays and strings, linked lists, stacks and queues, recursion, dynamic programming, trees and graphs, and bit manipulation.

### Quantitative Analyst Intern @ Prattle
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | St. Louis, MO
• Improved bank speaker detection for Prattle, a time-series sentiment data analysis company that utilizes NLP on central banks and public companies, by creating detection algorithms that boosted the accuracy from ~50% to nearly 100%
• Participated in a quantitative analytics research for enhancing Prattle’s automated scoring model using CAPIQ API. Utilized machine learning algorithms such as decision trees and random forests to create classifiers and predict consensus changes
• Using Python, Deployed Headless Chrome scripts on job servers that cut down the CPU usage from approximately 40% to ~10%. Furthermore, optimized memory efficiency by creating a process management script

### Data Services Student Assistant @ Washington University in St. Louis
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | St. Louis, MO
• Implemented data collection, normalization, and curation at Data & GIS Services (DGS) department in WUSTL
• Contributed to two projects utilizing data mining through Python, using packages such as Pandas and Beautiful Soup
• Manipulated data of various qualities, created metadata, cleaned and prepared data for analysis and visualization
• Participated in DataRescue, a hackathon to archive at-risk federal data and webpages, as a harvester

### Business Analyst Intern @ Deloitte
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Seoul, Korea
• Created a medium and long-term development plan for Korea’s largest government-funded technology startup support organization; utilized Excel pivot tables, macros, and VLookUp functions to enhance analysis of performance of 98 startups
• Performed global research to analyze startup technology trends of 10 different countries including Korea, the United States, Israel, Finland, Sweden, and England
• Incorporated up-to-date news in research by attending startup seminars, demo days, and interviewing CEOs and CTOs

### Marketing Chair (Olin Case Competition) @ Olin Business School at Washington University
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
• Conducted and led the student-led case competition as one of the executive team members. 
• Marketed the event to various local networks and to the school in order to increase participation; introduced the event through social networks such as Facebook and Twitter.

### Summer Intern @ Shakr Media
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
• Created fundamental font formats for the company by designing through Photoshop and integrated design into marketing.
• Created an original font format (.ttf) licensed to the company using calligraphy skills.


## Education
### Master of Science in Engineering in Artificial Intelligence
University of Pennsylvania
Jan 2024

### BSBA in Economics & Strategy, Computer Science
Washington University in St. Louis
Jan 2014 – Jan 2018

### Hankuk Academy of Foreign Studies
Jan 2011 – Jan 2014


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/skylarnam

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Last updated: 2026-03-22