DATAcated Content Creator Spotlight: Carly Taylor

Why Work With Carly?

If your product touches AI, machine learning, or data engineering, Carly Taylor is someone your audience will want to hear from. She builds AI systems and teaches people how to do the same, and she explains real engineering work with a sense of humor that makes her posts easy to read.

Carly is a VP at Crunchyroll, and before that she was Field CTO for Gaming at Databricks, where she advised gaming and entertainment companies on AI and data. Earlier in her career she built and led a machine learning engineering team at Activision working on Call of Duty, and she was a Director of Engineering at Microsoft. She holds two machine learning patents and a master's degree in computational chemistry, so when she talks about AI in production, she's talking about systems she has actually built.

She also runs Rebel Data Science, where she focuses on AI education, content, and brand partnerships, and she's a strong advocate for women in STEM, tech, and gaming.

What Carly Talks About

• Building AI systems: agents, memory, AI gateways, and what it takes to get AI running reliably in production.
• Engineering leadership: how to get engineering teams to adopt AI and how to measure whether it's actually helping.
• AI and the future of work: how AI is changing teams, companies, and what a company even looks like.
• Data and AI careers: practical advice for people moving into the field and growing in it.

Her Reach

Carly has a LARGE and engaged audience of engineers, data scientists, and tech leaders:

• LinkedIn: 190K+ followers
• Podcasts: guest appearances on shows like Super Data Science, The MAD Podcast with Matt Turck, and the AtScale podcast
• Stages: she has spoken at the Game Developers Conference and the Databricks Data + AI Summit

Why Brands Partner With Carly

• Credibility with technical audiences: she leads engineering teams and builds AI systems herself, so engineers and data leaders trust her take on tools.
• Posts people actually read: she turns a sponsored topic into a useful crash course, with a clear takeaway and a bit of humor.
• Experience with data and AI brands: she has partnered with companies like Oracle, Atlassian, CData, and Kore.ai.
• Lots of formats: LinkedIn posts, videos, podcasts, and live talks.

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