Luke Williams

Experience

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  Microchip Technology Inc.

  May 2020 - Dec 2020

  Intern, Product Engineering

  - Leveraged LabVIEW, NI Instruments, and Excel/VBA to collect, analyze, and visualize data - Designed custom VBA macros to shave hours off of data collection and analysis turnaround times - Created cryptographic product demonstrations in Python and C++- Planned and wrote feasibility report on Electroglas 4090 wafer tester automation assignment

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  Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

  Aug 2020 - Apr 2023

  Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

  - Provided assistance to students in Data Structures and Embedded Control classes and labs. - Checked off and supervised labs.

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  Guidance Analytics, LLC

  Jan 2021 - Dec 2022

  - Architected and led project to build the backbone library for data operations- Deployed data pipelines in a serverless, scalable solution using AWS- Designed and administrated central graph-based database and internal REST API using Neo4j and FastAPI - Built performance dashboard demonstrations using Dash and Plotly- Constructed backend for internal data-labeling service with Flask and deployed using AWS Elastic Beanstalk- Designed and implemented a system for even pre-sampling of data for machine learning models with unsupervised learning techniques and the PyTorch library

  • Software Engineering Consultant

    Oct 2022 - Dec 2022

  • Lead Backend Engineer

    Jul 2022 - Oct 2022

  • Software Engineer

    Jan 2021 - Jun 2022
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  Regeneron

  Jun 2021 - Aug 2021

  Intern, CMC Regulatory Sciences

  - Designed Database System to organize regulatory QC data using Access and SQL- Leveraged Excel and VBA to organize and analyze education compliance data

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  Naval Nuclear Laboratory (FMP)

  Jun 2022 - Aug 2022

  Data Engineering Intern, Shipboard IT Fleet Support

  - Built big-data pipelines using Spark saving hours of complex SQL queries- Visualized resultant data with Tableau and SQL- Generalized Spark pipelines as a Python library using PySpark saving a month of development efforts- Employed common time-series analysis techniques like exponential smoothing to analyze high-resolution telemetry data for new features

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  Agoro

  Jan 2023 - Jun 2023

  AI Research Engineer

  - Developed V1 deep learning system to recognize handwritten mathematical expressions achieving 60 BLEU on common benchmarks- Architected a no-code AWS-based system for secure management of open-source deep learning models trained on private data

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  Troy Tutors

  Jan 2023 - Apr 2023

  Computer Science and Engineering Tutor
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  Palantir Technologies

  Jun 2023 - now

  • Technical Lead

    Jan 2024 - now

  • Forward Deployed Software Engineer

    Jun 2023 - Jan 2024