Will Paul

Software Engineer

• Currently work on a messaging based application for scheduling, customizing, and syndicating emails

• Researched, developed, and tested ways to reduce Cassandra GC pressure, without impacting email throughput

• Primary contributor the backend of a new A/B testing feature for our users from inception to launch

• Won a ‘Rovie Above and Beyond’ award for contributions to the A/B testing

• Instrumented and optimized the performance of Rails app, fixing memory leaks, SQL tuning, and the inlining of CSS

Research Assistant

• Primary author on two papers, published and presented at INTERSPEECH 2015 & FAAVSP 2015

• Programming and linguistics lead on a multidisciplinary team of professors and graduate students on a multimodal, affective computing project

• Worked with human subjects to build and synchronize a multimodal data set for stress detection

• Created a machine learning models in Python to automatically detect stress in speech

• Designed and developed the website to promote our lab: Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing at RIT

Teaching Assistant

• Teaching assistant and grader for Algorithmic Problem Solving II and III

• Created and taught a class on using Git for version control

Software Engineer Intern

• Worked on the latest iteration of Constant Contact’s WYSIWYG email editor

• Centralized and updated build and test tooling across 20+ repos

• Improved development/integration experience for the Templates team

Web Developer Intern

• Led development on a web project that turned a research report into an interactive data visualization

• Worked on Rails CRM apps that integrated with direct mail and email initiatives

Rochester Institute of Technology

B.S. New Media Interactive Development

Minor in Free and Open Source Software & Immersion in Language Science

Outstanding Undergraduate Scholar Award

Honors Program, 3.99 GPA