Preston Willis
AI Architect at CentralSquare Technologies
Dallas, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolPreston Willis is an AI Architect and founder with nine years of experience designing mission-critical, CJIS-compliant systems that serve millions of Americans. Based in Dallas, he blends hands-on full‑stack engineering with product and DevOps leadership—having built PWAs, APIs, and cloud-native infrastructure, then exited his startup to CentralSquare Technologies. His work spans from Kubernetes and AWS migrations to research-driven predictive topology models for biomedical implant contouring, highlighting a knack for applying statistical and ML methods to real-world problems. At CentralSquare he focuses on safer, smarter community systems, while drawing on prior experience developing low-latency market tooling and rapid prototyping in mobile and web. A Southern Methodist University computer science major, he complements technical depth with GTM strategy, UI/UX design, and financial modeling—an unusual mix that accelerates productization of complex R&D.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
11-12, 11-12 at St Pauls School9-10, 9-10 at St. Paul's SchoolBachelor of Arts, Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science at Southern Methodist University
Github Skills (63)
unity3d9
serve9
deep-reinforcement-learning8
extensible8
intelligent8
monkey-patching8
simulations8
continuous-delivery8
volumes7
kubernetes7
kustomize7
etch7
backup7
machine-learning7
gitops7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
preston-willis/react-datepick
Apr 2020 - Aug 2020
Date-range picker for react
Contributions:1 release, 22 PRs, 77 pushes in 3 months
reactdatepickercalendardate-range-pickerrange-picker
iamPres/mountain-car-RL
Jun 2019 - Apr 2020
Gym MountainCar-v0 reinforcement learning algorithms
Contributions:5 PRs, 47 pushes, 4 branches in 10 months
reinforcement-learning-algorithmsmountaincar-v0reinforcement-learningdeep-reinforcement-learninglearning-algorithms
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