William Platt
Senior Research Associate - Programmer
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolWilliam Platt is a Senior Research Associate and programmer with nine years of experience building research-grade software where rigorous mathematics meets practical engineering. He is the sole developer of LancsBox X and a co-creator of the British National Corpus 2014, delivering large-scale corpus tools and pipelines used by linguists and researchers. Comfortable across Java, web stacks and concurrent systems, he has applied formal methods from his Oxford mathematics-and-computer-science master’s to projects like OWL-to-disjunctive-datalog translation that sped up reasoning. He pairs test-driven development and performance tuning with hands-on ops (web server and domain management) and community-minded projects such as a volunteer-run rehoming site. Known for finding elegant, provable solutions to messy data problems, he thrives where software development and mathematical proof collide.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science, First class, Master's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science, First class at University of OxfordBacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School Sixth Form
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Github Skills (27)
javafx9
rich-text-editor9
java8
rich-text7
analyser7
vocabulary7
strap5
abstract-syntax-tree5
renjin4
bootstrapping4
parser4
natural-language-processing4
parser-generator4
r-language3
kotlin3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
willplatt/LearnTatoeba
Apr 2020 - Sep 2020
Learn from over 300 languages by reading sentences based on your vocabulary and the words you’re learning!
Contributions:1 release, 120 commits, 11 pushes in 4 months
sentencesmachine-learningwordslanguagesvocabulary
willplatt/refraction-simulator
Jun 2020 - Jun 2020
Contributions:1 release, 1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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