Kevin Woodward
Software Engineer 3 at Ciena
Rohnert Park, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Woodward is a Software Engineer with nine years of experience blending applied machine learning research and production software development, currently at Ciena after senior engineering roles at Talis Biomedical. He holds an MS in Computer Engineering and completed a thesis on novel text-to-image synthesis architectures, experimenting with autoencoders and GAN variants and evaluating models with FID scores on local and cluster resources. Kevin’s background spans full-stack app and web development, data engineering, testing, and low-level control systems, with internships that included oscilloscope firmware/validation and regression tooling at Keysight. He’s driven to translate ML research into practical products, pairing hands-on model development with robust engineering practices and a history of shipping both research prototypes and production features. A practical tinkerer, he has experience training large models on shared research clusters, signaling both resource-savvy and reproducible experimentation habits.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa Cruz
English
Stackoverflow
66reputation
4kreached
9answers
2questions
Github Skills (14)
text-encoding7
issue-tracking7
graphql6
aws-appsync6
tkinter6
amazon-web-services6
python6
aws-amplify6
reporting-services6
mysql6
encoding6
word2vec4
deep-learning3
pytorch3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
joasepul/caption-to-image-synthesis
Apr 2019 - Mar 2020
An adversarial network to turn captions into images using word2vec for text encoding!
Contributions:43 commits, 11 PRs, 37 pushes in 11 months
pytorchdeep-learningadversarialencodingword2vec
kevinwoodward/lemonade
Apr 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:28 PRs, 66 pushes, 15 branches in 1 month
consolemidicmpsmusicmusic-player
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