Liam Watts
Senior Software Engineer at The Trade Desk
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolLiam Watts is a Senior Software Engineer based in Sydney with eight years’ experience building data-driven systems across backend, frontend and machine learning. He currently leads integrations at The Trade Desk, designing dashboards, streaming pipelines (SQL, Kafka, Flink) and tooling that sped up search queries 4x and support data provider workflows end-to-end. Prior roles at Hudson River Trading and CSIRO combine production-grade data engineering, large-scale migrations and NLP research—he trained multi-billion parameter models, shrank retrieval models 10x, and contributed to TREC and SIGIR papers. Liam is pragmatic about shipping reliable systems (CI/CD, caching, async, on-call fixes) and enjoys taking ownership across product, API and database boundaries. He’s a curious polyglot in both code and language learning, studying Japanese and Chinese in his spare time.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
The University of SydneyBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Wollongong
English, Japanese, Chinese
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Github Skills (16)
python-scripts5
cgo5
jupyter-notebook4
golang4
telegram-bot4
godoc4
deep-learning3
ipython3
python3
machine-learning3
lightning3
jupyter2
pytorch-lightning2
dependency-manager2
go2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Wattsy2020/connect4-AI
Jan 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:5 releases, 4 PRs, 30 pushes in 4 months
deep-learningartificialmachine-learningtensorflowconnect4
Wattsy2020/haskell_reference
May 2023 - Oct 2024
Contributions:49 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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