Lawrence Thatcher
Software Engineer at Varsity Tutors, a Nerdy Company
West Jordan, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLawrence Thatcher is a software engineer with 11 years of experience combining machine learning research and full‑stack web development, currently maintaining multi‑user Azure‑hosted interfaces at Evans Creek Media. He brings a strong academic foundation from Brigham Young University and helped advance applied ML research in temporal data annotation and user experience while a graduate research assistant. Comfortable across front-end, middle tier, and SQL Server work, he pairs practical cloud deployment skills with a sensitivity for UX that informs ML-driven interfaces. Since 2020 he has also tutored graduate students in machine learning, translating complex concepts into teachable, production‑ready solutions. Based in West Jordan, Utah, he’s known for rapid, client-responsive delivery and a habit of exploring adjacent areas like computer vision and data visualization.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Brigham Young University
Github Skills (46)
hierarchical7
temporal7
r-tree7
recursive6
two-dimensional6
modeling6
topic-modeling6
markov6
hidden6
logistic-regression5
api5
kd-tree5
spatial-index5
anchor5
nearest-neighbors4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
lwthatcher/stickers
May 2018 - Aug 2019
The practical interface for interactive temporal data annotation used for my Thesis proposal.
Contributions:10 releases, 33 PRs, 291 pushes in 1 year 4 months
data-annotationtemporal-datatemporalpracticalthesis
lwthatcher/mlp
Mar 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:53 commits, 47 pushes, 1 branch in 15 days
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