William Karavites
Analytics And Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Engineer Senior Staff at Lockheed Martin
Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolWilliam Karavites is a senior Analytics and AI/ML engineer and architect with 13 years of experience building resilient data platforms, DevSecOps pipelines, and production AI capabilities at scale. He leads cross-functional teams at Lockheed Martin, creating company-wide software development platforms, a multi-million-dollar AI/HPC lab, and agentic tooling like a FastMCP wrapper while coaching organizations on when to use agents versus traditional engineering. Comfortable from hands-on backend work to enterprise strategy, he has a track record migrating legacy systems to cloud-native, shaping disaster recovery plans, and operationalizing data ecosystems. A former Rutgers software team lead and active contributor to the open-source Sakai LMS, he brings practical full-stack skills (Java, Python, MySQL) together with governance-minded design. Known as a mentor and integrator, he excels at threading collaborative processes across teams to improve technical efficiency and capacity. Based in Lower Merion Township, he combines defense-sector rigor with an academic foundation in IT and business to translate complex requirements into usable, auditable solutions.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
HighSchool Degree HighSchool Degree, HighSchool Degree HighSchool Degree at Red Bank Catholic HighschoolTFMSStudy Abroad Software Engineer & Defense Studies, Study Abroad Software Engineer & Defense Studies at University of ExeterMaster's degree Information Technology & Business, Master's degree Information Technology & Business at Rutgers University
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Github Skills (11)
javas10
sakai10
lms10
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javascript9
css6
id36
jar6
mp36
tomcat5
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Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
sakaiproject/sakai
Dec 2015 - Jul 2016
Sakai is a freely available, feature-rich technology solution for learning, teaching, research and collaboration. Sakai is an open source software suite developed by a diverse and global adopter community.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 16 PRs, 22 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:William primarily contributed to bug fixes and minor feature enhancements within the Sakai LMS project. They addressed issues related to the user interface, specifically syllabus components, including label and button fixes. The commits demonstrate modifications to Java and Javascript files, indicating a focus on backend functionality and the user interface. This involved addressing issues related to chat messages refresh, site icon usage, and general UI elements.
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willkara/sakai
May 2015 - Aug 2016
Contributions:41 pushes, 15 branches in 1 year 2 months
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