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Alyshia Ledlie

Austin,US

Summary

Senior Trust & Safety leader with 9+ years of experience at Meta, specializing in ML/AI safety infrastructure, automation, and emerging threat mitigation. Proven expertise in scaling global systems, managing cross-functional teams, and launching anti-abuse technologies that protected billions of users. Founder of AI-integrity startup with a passion for explainability and a mission to operationalize compliance and ethical AI.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Founder & CEO

InventoryAI, Integrity Studios
02.2024 - Current
  • Negotiated favorable contracts with multiple investors, reducing up-front start-up costs and gaining valuable mentorship support.
  • Established a successful business by identifying market needs and developing innovative solutions.
  • Developed strong partnerships with HEB, Austin government agencies, and non-profits, reducing Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) and contributing to the health and resilience of the local Austin community.
  • Drove forward innovation and automation in the retail, security, compliance, and non-profit sectors.

Entrepreneur-in-Residence | Independent Consultant

Self-employeed
02.2023 - 02.2024

While recovering from surgery for a year, founded and ran three small companies across completely distinct areas - real estate management, options trading risk management, consulting for technical stack acquisition and AI/generalized automation strategies and opportunities.

Lead Technical Principal, Trust & Safety

Facebook
07.2017 - 02.2023
  • Spearheaded the architecture and development of ML and rule engine infra to facilitate safe and transparent enforcement decisions
  • Automated and standardized reporting for Meta's hundreds of anti-abuse systems, reducing regulatory compliance workloads by over 90%
  • Deployed a standardized actioning platform across Meta, decreasing untracked actions by 35% while increasing developer efficiency by 10%
  • Technical lead for a multi-year, company-wide initiative to ensure zero-error-tolerance decisions for political ads

Technical Operations Engineer, Trust & Safety

Facebook
08.2015 - 07.2017
  • Collaborated with internal stakeholders to prevent malicious activity while increasing workflow automation rates to over 98%
  • Automated detection of emerging abuse trends and anomalies, preventing 100+ novel abuse vectors every year
  • Developed automated risk and abuse mitigation systems utilizing PHP, SQL, python, and Haskell, decreasing ad-hoc developer workloads by 20%

Technical Specialist, Engineering & Analytics

The Advisory Board Company
08.2014 - 08.2015
  • Leveraged open soure and and custom logging frameworks to track system performance issues
  • Ensured product reliability by automating data quality and integrity protocols

Technical Consultant, Engineering & Analytics

Access Sciences
05.2014 - 08.2014
  • Developed a facebook-inspired communication platform for geographically dispersed consultant teams, allowing collaborative discussions regarding common challenges and learnings. Reached 100% adoption within 2 months of launch.

Education

J.D/Ph.D, ABD - Legal History

Cornell University
08.2014

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science, History

University of Texas, Austin
08.2005 - 08.2009

Skills

  • Machine Learning/AI Safety & Explainability
  • Automation Risk and Performance Management
  • Programming Languages: PHP, Haskell, SQL, python, R
  • Threat Analysis & Prioritization
  • Large-Scale Dataset Analytics
  • Trust and Safety Systems Engineering
  • Integrity Performance Monitoring & Improvement
  • Cross-functional & Stakeholder Communication
  • Fraud & Abuse Identification & Prevention

Timeline

Founder & CEO - InventoryAI, Integrity Studios
02.2024 - Current
Entrepreneur-in-Residence | Independent Consultant - Self-employeed
02.2023 - 02.2024
Lead Technical Principal, Trust & Safety - Facebook
07.2017 - 02.2023
Technical Operations Engineer, Trust & Safety - Facebook
08.2015 - 07.2017
Technical Specialist, Engineering & Analytics - The Advisory Board Company
08.2014 - 08.2015
Technical Consultant, Engineering & Analytics - Access Sciences
05.2014 - 08.2014
University of Texas - Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, History
08.2005 - 08.2009
Cornell University - J.D/Ph.D, ABD, Legal History
Alyshia Ledlie