THOMAS WOOD
CANDIDATE-ID: TW-773914
OCCUPATIONS: AI SCIENTIST // FARMER // ROBOTICIST
HOBBIES: POLITICAL ECONOMICS // WRITING // MATHEMATICS
LOCATION: LIVE OAK, FLORIDA
SPECIAL ABILITY: AUTOMATION FORCE MULTIPLIER
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
OPERATIONAL HISTORY
[JAN 2024 - PRESENT]
APPLIED AI SCIENTIST // PIECES TECHNOLOGIES
- Prompt engineering for clinical summaries and decision support pipelines
- Data engineering for LLM pipelines with Airflow, Kubernetes, and Elasticsearch
- Programming evangelism to physicians with Jupyter notebooks and Streamlit web apps
- Received commendations for user-friendly prompt testing interfaces
- Streamlined clinical workflow adoption through interactive notebooks
[APR 2022 - DEC 2023]
MACHINE LEARNING ENGINEER // OPTX
- Architect and deploy advanced data/ML pipeline infrastructure
- Implement Kubernetes-based ML service deployment architecture
- Optimize cost efficiency of ML computational resources
- Design and deploy GPT4 + RAG systems for structured data interaction
[FEB 2021 - APR 2022]
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCHER // LIFEBIO
- Engineered data pipelines for ML development processes
- Implemented document analysis systems with Hugging Face Transformers
- Constructed ML service architecture using Docker/Kubernetes on Azure
- Advanced Speech-to-Text methodologies with SpeechBrain framework
- Executed distributed training protocols with DeepSpeed
- Directed ML skill advancement program for technical personnel
[JUN 2013 - PRESENT]
LEAD SCIENTIST // SYNPON LABS
- Question-answering systems development: Theano, PyTorch
- Humanoid robotics control systems: MuJoCo, Unity, Drake
- Deep reinforcement learning: TensorFlow, PyTorch
- Multi-modal computer vision research: PyTorch, Caffe, MS COCO
- Open source development and technical consultation
[PRIOR ASSIGNMENTS]
- PORTLAND GENERAL ELECTRIC [JUL 2020 - DEC 2020]: ML product deployment, cloud architecture
- NIKE [MAY 2019 - JUN 2020]: ETL systems, analytics visualization
- HUAWEI [JUL 2018 - JAN 2019]: Visual relation detection, graph deep learning
- ASTOUND [DEC 2017 - MAR 2018]: AutoML systems development
- INTEL [MAY 2017 - AUG 2017]: Automated ETL systems
- MICROSOFT [JAN 2016 - FEB 2016]: Text analysis, AzureML
- SPORTSWEAR INC [DEC 2014 - MAY 2015]: CUDA/C++ engineering
- UW MEDICINE [2011 - 2013]: Computational biology research
ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS
[GRADUATE STUDIES]
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
DEGREE: M.S. APPLIED MATHEMATICS
FOCUS: DATA SCIENCE, SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING, ROBOTICS
[UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES]
LAMAR UNIVERSITY
DEGREE: B.S. PHYSICS
FOCUS: QUANTUM FIELD THEORY, LONGITUDINAL OPTICS
TECHNICAL SYSTEMS
- 10+ Years Production Python Architecture & Development
- High Performance Computing & Systems Optimization
- Full Stack Development & Cloud Infrastructure
- Enterprise Linux/Unix Administration
- Modern DevOps & CI/CD Implementation
- Distributed Systems & Container Orchestration
- Scientific Computing & Applied Mathematics
- Large-Scale Data Pipeline Architecture
CONTACT PROTOCOLS
- LINKEDIN: linkedin/optimaldynamics
- GITHUB: github/odellus
- HOMEPAGE: synpon.com
- BLUE SKY: odellus.bsky.social
- EMAIL: thomas@synpon.com
- PHONE: (971) 770-7914