Summary
Bryn Ward-leikis is a Junior Research Engineer and Master of Artificial Intelligence candidate at the University of Auckland, combining a strong academic record with nine years of practical engineering experience across web development, networking systems, and MLOps. He brings hands-on experience building high-availability virtualization and monitoring systems, improving security for video management platforms, and contributing devops tooling and analytics for a volunteer-run multiplayer game. Comfortable toggling between research, teaching assistance, and production engineering, he has a knack for turning academic ideas into pragmatic systems and process improvements. Passionate about machine learning engineering, Bryn is already applying ML and MLOps thinking in research and nonprofit projects while continuing to formalize that expertise through graduate study. Notably, he balances part-time volunteer engineering at ComCODE with full-time study and industry work, demonstrating strong time management and a bias toward impactful, community-oriented software.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Artificial Intelligence - MAI, Current: 8.4 / 9, Master of Artificial Intelligence - MAI, Current: 8.4 / 9 at The University of Auckland
Lindisfarne College