Wes Lloyd
Associate Professor
Tacoma, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWes Lloyd is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Washington Tacoma with nine years in academia and a long history of industry software engineering dating back to the late 1990s. His research blends distributed systems, cloud computing, and software engineering with applied machine learning and statistical methods to optimize performance, autonomy, and resource management for scientific applications. He has a strong track record supporting environmental modeling for USDA agencies and focuses on reducing hosting costs while improving scientific model performance across public and private clouds. Prior roles span research scientist and IT leadership at Colorado State and engineering positions at HP, IBM, USGS contractors, and other firms, giving him deep practical experience in production systems. Notably, his work marries rigorous PhD-level research with hands-on system building—making him effective at moving scientific workloads from prototype to scalable cloud deployments.
9 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at Colorado State UniversityVirginia TechBS, Computer Science Engineering, BS, Computer Science Engineering at The University of Toledo
Github Skills (12)
aws-lambda9
serverless8
faas8
aws8
analytics6
azure-functions5
azure4
message-passing3
python3
azure-webjobs-sdk3
flask3
inspector3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
wlloyduw/lambda_test
Aug 2017 - Jan 2022
Contributions:63 commits, 51 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
wlloyduw/IaaSCloudResourceContention
Jul 2019 - Aug 2022
Contributions:62 commits, 60 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 1 month
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