William Burklund

Experience

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  TuitionFit

  May 2019 - May 2020

  Developer

  • Taught self ASP.NET MVC / Microsoft SQL Server and introduced new feature in less than two weeks

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  REPAY - Realtime Electronic Payments

  Dec 2019 - May 2021

  Full Stack Developer

  • Resolved bottlenecks in chargeback processing application to reduce processing time by 80%

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  Western Governors University

  Jun 2021 - now

  • Improved embedding model performance by 10% while reducing embedding size by 33% by applying quantization and truncation• Coached teammates on runtime performance optimization through GPU utilization, batching, and parallelization • Launched HuggingFace transformer model for credit transfer evaluation by reverse engineering contractor pipelines• Designed NLP engine with sentiment, embedding, and lemma features along with user-friendly query builder• Built validation pipeline with MLflow reporting of business-defined metrics • Enabled insourcing of field experience tracking by collaborating with internal stakeholders and implementing GraphQL data pipeline • Laid groundwork for business expansion into microcredentials by implementing multitenancy in OAuth identity provider

  • Machine Learning Engineer II

    Nov 2024 - now

  • Machine Learning Engineer

    Nov 2023 - Nov 2024

  • Data Engineer

    Jul 2022 - Nov 2023

  • Software Engineer

    Jun 2021 - Jul 2022