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    \section{Wil Collins}
    wil.collins@gmail.com \\
    (628) 333-9452  \\
    github.com/wilcollins \\
    linkedin.com/in/wilcollinsVT 
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Product-focused polyglot engineer experienced designing \& building fault tolerant distributed systems, full-stack applications, \& near real-time data pipelines. Skilled at driving complex projects from concept to completion with efficiency \& scalability for more than 10 years.
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\section{Education} 

\subsection{Virginia Tech}
\descript{BS in Computer Science}
\descript{Minor in Mathematics}

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\subsection{Languages}
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Go \textbullet{} 
Python \textbullet{} 
Java (spring) \textbullet{} 
Ruby on Rails \smallbreak
JavaScript (node+react+vue+next) 
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\subsection{Distributed Systems}
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AWS \textbullet{}
Kubernetes \textbullet{}
RabbitMQ \textbullet{}
Redis \smallbreak
SQL \textbullet{}
NoSQL \textbullet{}
Docker \textbullet{}
Terraform \textbullet{}
Ansible  \smallbreak
System Optimization \textbullet{}
Security in Depth   \smallbreak
Fault Tolerance  \textbullet{}
Microservice Architecture \smallbreak
Blockchain \textbullet{}
EVM \textbullet{}
gRPC \textbullet{}
Protobuf
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\subsection{Data Science \& ML / AI}
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numpy \textbullet{} 
scikit-learn \textbullet{} 
pandas \smallbreak 
pytorch \textbullet{} 
tensorflow 
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\section{Certifications}

\subsection{Stanford University}
\descript{Supervised Machine Learning: Regression and Classification}
\datelocation{February 2024}{Online}


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\section{Projects}

%\subsection{Algorithmic Trading}
%\descript{Sole Proprietor}
%\datelocation{December 2021-Current}{USA}
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%\item Developed a Python-based trading system
%\item Leveraged historical \& real-time API data sources to improve signal reliability within my model
%\item Integrated multiple brokerage APIs for access to different assets \& liquidity
%\item Analyzed stock \& options market data using a variety of techniques including Monte Carlo simulations to optimize strategies, identify asymmetric trading opportunities, \& improve risk assessment
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\subsection{Virginia Tech CTR Network}
\descript{ML Engineer}
\datelocation{January 2013 - May 2013}{Blacksburg, VA}
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\item Developed web crawler using NLP \& machine learning to build a corpus of news articles
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\subsection{Virginia Tech HCI Research}
\descript{Research Assistant}
\datelocation{January 2011 - May 2012}{Blacksburg, VA}
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\item Developed distributed game to study effects of visible information \& information security on UX
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%2012 &  VTKW Entrepreneur Challenge Finalist\\
%2015 &  IBM Manager's Choice Q3 \\
%2016 & IBM Manager's Choice Q1 \\
%2016 & IBM Manager's Choice Q3 \\
%2016 & IBM Watson IoT Contest Finalist \\
%2016 & Accepted into IBM's Startup Accelerator \\
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\section{Experience}

\runsubsection{Forkable / The Kitchens}
\jobtitle{Full-stack Engineer}
\datelocation{May 2023 - January 2024}{Remote}
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\item Developed full-stack features to improve ops efficiency \& customer UX using Ruby on Rails, Vue.js, GraphQL, Redis, \& Postgres
\item Designed \& implemented features for customer refunds, customer receipts, \& enhanced user ratings that included Slack \& email integrations
\item Collaborated with the product team to refine project requirements, prioritize tasks, \& deliver projects aligning with strategic goals
\item Provided additional support in the form of critical performance optimizations, best practice coding reviews, \& end-to-end testing to ensure robustness \& reliability
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\runsubsection{Axelar Network}
\jobtitle{Backend Engineer}
\datelocation{August 2021 - November 2022}{Remote}
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\item Designed \& developed blockchain control plane microservices with event bus architecture for testnet, mainnet, \& token launches using Go, RabbitMQ, Redis, Terraform, gRPC, ProtoBuf, \& Kubernetes with AWS Lambda, MQ, RDS, \& DynamoDB
\item Improved reliability of RPC clients to 99.9\% with prioritized round-robining, integrating multiple node providers such as Infura \& QuickNode for business-critical operations
\item Indexed EVM-compatible blockchain data
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\runsubsection{Collective Health}
\jobtitle{Senior Backend Engineer}
\datelocation{June 2017 - July 2021}{San Francisco, CA}
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\item Core contributor on greenfield, HIPAA-compliant medical claim adjudication pipeline 
\item Designed \& developed control plane \& data plane microservices using Java Spring Boot, Go, GraphQL, RabbitMQ, PostgresSQL, Kubernetes, Terraform, \& Ansible using AWS SQS, Lambda, DynamoDB, RDS, ELB, \& API Gateway  
\item Led quality planning \& analysis for the claims adjudication pipeline which resulted in industry-best auto-adjudication level of 95\%
\item Developed observability \& performance metrics \& dashboards for real-time monitoring of production systems using Prometheus, Grafana, \& Kibana (ELK)
\item Developed SQL notebooks in DataBricks to migrate entire database using Spark 
\item Optimized core SQL queries for more than 90\% performance gains
\item Partnered with data science to integrate ML model as a recommendation engine
\item Founding member of the Security Champions program that built \& evangelized a strong culture of security with a focus on security-in-depth, including practices such as certified training, threat modeling, \& toolchain analysis
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%\runsubsection{Agari Data, Inc.}
%\jobtitle{Software Engineer}
%\datelocation{November 2016 - May 2017}{Bay Area, CA}
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%\item Developed end-to-end test frameworks, performance metrics, \& monitoring dashboards to help meet NRT data pipeline SLAs
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\runsubsection{IBM}
\jobtitle{Staff Software Engineer}
\datelocation{June 2014 - November 2016}{Bay Area, CA}
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\item Led a team building a robot to interface with IBM's Watson IoT API using natural language classifiers, voice-to-text \& text-to-voice, Node.js command-\&-control server with iOS Swift client
\item Administered virtual labs for development \& testing using clusters of virtualized machines using VMware vSphere, vCluster, \& VirtualBox
\item Led continuous integration of mobile project; designed \& developed Appium-based mobile automation framework; evangelized best practice testing methodologies 
\item Managed customer delivery of automation framework for our white label software
\item Developed ETLs to improve performance by more than 50\%
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\runsubsection{Freelance}
\jobtitle{Product Engineer}
\datelocation{October 2011 - Current}{USA}
\begin{tightemize}
\item Designed \& developed custom web apps including a solution to manage the book of business for international film \& tv production \& talent agency
\item Accepted into IBM BlueMix Startup Accelerator for competitive mobile social app focused on sports fans
\item Finalist in the VT KnowledgeWorks Entrepreneurship Challenge for mobile app focused on mental health 
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