Zayne Sprague
Researcher PHD Student at The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZayne Sprague is a PhD researcher and experienced full-stack engineer based in Austin, Texas, focused on improving reasoning in large language models and bridging AI research with real-world products. With nine years in industry and entrepreneurship, he has built and scaled web and mobile features, implemented ML stacks, and led small engineering teams at CoPilot while founding startups and pitching to investors. His academic work at UT Austin spans NLP, reinforcement learning, and cognitive-inspired world models, with hands-on experience reproducing and deploying state-of-the-art CV and textual reasoning systems. Comfortable across Go, C#, React, and Vue, he emphasizes maintainable, dockerized pipelines and clear documentation to make complex research reproducible in production. Colleagues describe him as someone who thrives in high-stakes, collaborative environments and uniquely blends product sensibility with deep technical rigor. Beyond code and papers, he enjoys learning in public and mentoring others through the research-to-product journey.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at The University of Texas at AustinCourseraLone Star CollegeMontgomery Highschool
English
Github Skills (6)
bootswatch10
jekyll-theme9
liquid8
jekyll8
react3
material-ui2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
zzayne/iview-dynamicRouter
Jan 2018 - Apr 2019
Contributions:13 commits, 10 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 3 months
zzayne/go-blog
May 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:17 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 26 days
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