Brian Williams
Founder & Lead Engineer at Vartia.ai
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Williams is a founder and lead engineer with 14 years of experience turning ambiguous technical ideas into working prototypes, currently building ML consulting solutions at Vartia.ai from Mountain View. He specializes in classification, embeddings, and evaluation pipelines and is creating MemSafeEval, a benchmark for memory-safety vulnerability classification in C/C++. His background spans applied machine learning at Apple and production-focused computer vision work—such as training a PyTorch CNN for embedded food-browning detection deployed to Caffe2 on an appliance. He also has deep product experience leading iOS architecture, secure mobile encryption workflows, and embedded firmware integrations from roles at Otto and earlier startups. A Carnegie Mellon-trained HCI practitioner with a studio arts BA, he blends design sensibility with rigorous engineering to bridge research, prototypes, and deployable systems. Colleagues would note his knack for shipping pragmatic, resource-constrained ML and embedded solutions that make hard problems tangible.
14 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BA Studio Arts, BA Studio Arts at University of RochesterMasters Human-Computer Interaction, Masters Human-Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon University
Stackoverflow
885reputation
101kreached
12answers
10questions
Github Skills (133)
transformers10
language-model10
python10
flax10
deep-learning10
gpu10
gpu-acceleration10
nbdev10
modular10
acceleration10
numpy10
fastai10
neural-network10
transformer10
nlp10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
briandw/SwiftPack
Jun 2014 - Oct 2015
Contributions:39 commits, 3 PRs, 16 pushes in 1 year 3 months
swiftmsgpackmessagepack
SecuraSeal/AFNetworking
Feb 2015 - Sep 2017
Contributions:9 pushes in 2 years 7 months
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