Joey Scarpa
Joseph Scarpa
Software Engineer @ Meta working on Meta Verified. Previously Interpretable ML Undergrad Research Assistant @ Duke University
I am not actively seeking new positions. Résumé available upon request.
What I’m working on in 2024-2025
- Becoming a better developer by learning how to manage problems of immense scale and ambiguity.
- Working on a web-services startup for the professions (lawyers, doctors, accountants, architects, etc.)
- Becoming a better musical collaborator in the sacred music space (more styles, working with a conductor, improving intuition when working with choirs.)
Experience
Meta, Software Engineer
June 2024 – Present
New Monetization Experiences Engineering Group (Meta Verified)
Menlo Park, CA
- Migrated 95% of Meta Verified’s account linking APIs to comply with privacy SLA (legal requirement), ensuring the product remains online.
- Increased test coverage on core components of the Meta Verified flow, alleviating risk on high-severity APIs.
Rudin Interpretability Lab, Undergraduate Research Assistant
January 2023 – August 2023 Durham, NC
- Implemented a machine-learning pipeline in Python to preprocess largely uncleaned ICU data, do time-series-based feature engineering, concurrently execute and log hyperparameter tuning with the Slurm Workload Manager and Weights and Biases (WandB), and train/test machine learning models.
- Wrote extraction scripts in PostgreSQL and BigQuerySQL to extract raw EHR data for the pipeline to preprocess and utilize. Conferred with researchers at MIT regarding design decisions.
- Contributed to Professor Cynthia Rudin’s Interpretability Lab’s ongoing research into using state-of-the-art interpretable machine learning models (FasterRisk, FastSparse, GOSDT) to predict patient mortality; wrote and edited paper sections (pending submission to data-science journals).
Education
Duke University
August 2020 – May 2024
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts in Music (Organ Performance).
Durham, NC
Music
I have extensive musical experience – BA in Organ Performance, worked as supply organist since 2018 at churches of all sizes, received a choral scholarship at Duke Chapel, former member of Duke’s professional Evensong and Bach choirs, former member of St. Agnes Cathedral Boys Choir, former boy soprano at NY City Opera.
Once I’ve worked out more immediate matters in my life, I plan on preparing a recital every here. I’ll be posting information on those here.
Hire an organist
If you are in the Bay Area, I am booked on Sunday mornings until May 2025 with limited openings for Saturdays, Special Feasts. I have very limited availability for NY churches during Advent IV/Christmastide. If you are interested, and we haven’t worked together before, please include the honorarium in your email. I am working on a digital scheduler soon.
Project Fugue
I am working on some collections of fugues for organ and maybe piano on themes from famous classical compositions, which I hope to make publically available in 2026.