W Hilliard
Software Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolW Hilliard is a software engineer based in Redmond with 10 years of experience building high-performance ML and distributed systems, currently architecting compute-centric microservices at Microsoft. He designs end-to-end platforms—from neural network optimization frameworks and distributed model-parallel training to ETL pipelines and API-driven control planes—for on-prem, cloud, and hybrid environments. His background includes speeding data ingestion 50x, reducing Lucene search complexity from O(n^2) to O(n), and tuning hardware, storage, and OS stacks for latency-sensitive ML workloads. At AnomalousDL he led the ADLKit platform for live AI-powered network intrusion detection and built the underlying HPC cluster and CI/CD systems. Known for rapid prototyping and pragmatic engineering, he combines deep systems knowledge with data-driven experimentation to turn research ideas into production. He also jokingly summarizes his GitHub persona as specializing in “brake points and break points,” reflecting a playful attention to performance and debugging.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Grapevine High SchoolBachelor of Science (BS), Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Software Engineering at The University of Texas at Arlington
English
Github Skills (73)
chat10
javascript9
dotnet9
sdk9
starter-kit9
collaboration9
ejs9
boilerplate9
webrtc9
slack9
azure8
azure-functions8
nodejs8
meteor8
communications8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
anomalousdl/adlkit
Jul 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:1 release, 14 PRs, 69 pushes in 10 months
wghilliard/deluxxe
Nov 2024 - Feb 2025
Contributions:26 reviews, 2 PRs, 14 pushes in 2 months
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