William Burklund

William burklund

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location of William BurklundAnn Arbor, Michigan, United States
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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Awesome Tech Made Simple | Machine Learning Engineer II at WGU

  • Education

    • Western governors university

      2020 - 2021
      Bachelor of science - bs computer science
    • Georgia institute of technology

      2021 - 2023
      Master of science - ms computer science 4.0/4.0

      Courses:• Advanced Operating Systems• Big Data Health• Compilers• Computer Networks• Computer Vision• Deep Learning• Graduate Algorithms • High-Performance Computing• Machine Learning• Reinforcement Learning

  • Experience

    • Tuitionfit

      May 2019 - May 2020
      Developer

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

    • Repay - realtime electronic payments

      Dec 2019 - May 2021
      Full stack developer

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

    • 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
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Aws certified solutions architect – professional

      Amazon web services (aws)
      Apr 2025
      View certificate certificate
    • Oracle database sql certified associate

      Oracle
      Jan 2021
      View certificate certificate
    • Aws certified solutions architect – associate

      Amazon web services (aws)
      Mar 2025
      View certificate certificate
    • Aws certified machine learning – specialty

      Amazon web services (aws)
      Feb 2024
      View certificate certificate
  • Volunteer Experience

    • Developer

      Issued by Quad Cities Veterans Outreach Center on Aug 2018
      Quad Cities Veterans Outreach CenterAssociated with William Burklund