Will Paul

(570) 867-2399 • me@will-paul.comwill-paul.comgithub.com/dropofwill

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Work Experience


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

Education


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

Project Experience


github.com/dropofwill/nlp-predicting-turn-types

Predicting Turn Types Competition

Led the development on a team 3 for a Natural Language Processing competition using interview transcript data to classify whether a given ‘turn’ in the dialogue was a question or an answer and whether the topic was of an emotional or a material nature. Achieved 89% averaged accuracy across tasks winning the competition (out of 6 teams).

cgraph.herokuapp.com/

CGraph

Even though code is written linearly, it executes in a graph. Collaborated with another developer to create CGraph: a tool that parses arbitrary C code, generates a function call graph, and creates an interactive visualization of the graph side-by-side with the code. Allowing for a more natural way to explore a code base.

https://github.com/dropofwill/wsd-sankey-visualization

Word Sense Disambiguation + Interactive Visualization

Implemented the Yarowsky supervised decision list algorithm for the word sense disambiguation task in Python. Created an interactive Sankey diagram to help interpret the results of the algorithm on an arbitrary data set.

Core Skills


Programming languagesComfortable with
JavaPostgreSQL
ScalaMySQL
RubyCassandra
JavaScriptRedis
PythonRabbitMQ