Carly Taylor

About

I build AI systems in production and teach people how to do the same. I’m a hands-on builder and executive leading AI concept development at Crunchyroll (Sony Pictures), a 20M subscriber global business. Before this I was Field CTO at Databricks advising major studios on AI and data strategy, and before that I built and scaled a 40-person ML engineering organization at Activision doing real-time behavioral understanding at global scale. My technical background: M.S. computational chemistry, two ML patents, research with Stanford, NVIDIA, and Caltech. I’ve been building with machine learning since before it was the obvious thing to do. Now I write about agentic AI, what actually happens when you ship AI in production, how to build efficient teams, and the gap between how AI gets talked about and how it actually works. 185k people read along. I partner with tech companies I actually use. If you’re building something in the AI space and want a creator with real technical depth and a real audience, my DMs are open. Fast Company. Stanford. NVIDIA. Caltech. Advocate for women in STEM.