Dale Willis
Chief Technology Officer at Agrograph
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDale Willis is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 11 years of professional experience building AI-driven, cloud-native systems that turn satellite and sensor data into actionable agricultural intelligence. As CTO of Agrograph and former co-founder/CTO of Curate, he has repeatedly taken early-stage products and failing programs to scale, driving major cost reductions and delivering acquisition-ready solutions. His hands-on expertise spans machine learning, enterprise software, embedded systems, and modern stacks including Python, React/Next.js, Kubernetes, vector databases, and LLM integrations. At FiscalNote he led platform-level initiatives and cut operational costs by hundreds of thousands annually while mentoring engineering and DevOps teams. He holds advanced degrees in electrical engineering from UW–Madison and carried doctoral research in machine learning, blending deep academic rigor with pragmatic product execution. Outside work he’s an outdoors enthusiast who brings the same systems-oriented curiosity to sailing and family adventures.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Electrical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Electrical Engineering at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Github Skills (48)
pytorch10
python10
natural-language-processing10
nlp10
routers9
ecosystem9
kops9
kubernetes9
gcp9
machine-learning9
docker9
bert9
aws9
tensorflow9
linode9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
dalefwillis/release-testing
Mar 2020 - Mar 2020
Just to walk through release branch structure to make sure everyone is happy with how it would work
Contributions:6 PRs, 6 pushes, 9 branches in 1 day
happywalk
exis-io/exis-io.github.io
Oct 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:28 commits, 1 PR, 43 pushes in 3 months
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