William Zhuk
Co-Founder & VP, AI at Arcade
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Zhuk is a Co-Founder and VP of AI with a decade of experience building production ML systems and startups in the San Francisco Bay Area. He combines hands-on research engineering at OpenAI with entrepreneurial product delivery—having co-founded and exited an AI startup and now scaling Arcade. His background spans full-stack engineering, production ML pipelines, and tools like Docker, Kibana, and Elasticsearch, backed by graduate studies in algorithms and machine learning from Stanford and a CS/Math double major from UC Berkeley. William has shipped ranking and list-recommendation systems at Google and operationalized research models at OpenAI, bridging research and production. He’s equally comfortable mentoring and teaching, with early experience guiding CS students and junior engineers. Notably, he blends deep algorithmic training with practical operational know-how that accelerates taking models from prototype to reliable service.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Double Major in Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Double Major in Mathematics and Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Stanford University
Github Skills (26)
generative-adversarial-network9
generative8
diffusion-models8
paths8
blobs8
azure-storage7
diffusers7
machine-learning7
mining6
fine-tuning6
stable-diffusion6
google5
storage5
pytorch4
snap4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
williamzhuk/CS236G
Nov 2020 - Jan 2021
Stanford CS236G: Generative Adversarial Networks. New course this Winter 2020-21 - please enroll! :)
Contributions:35 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
pytorchstanforddeep-learningadversarialwinter
williamzhuk/blobfile
Mar 2023 - Jun 2023
Read Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blobs, and local paths with the same interface
Contributions:5 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
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