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Software Engineer Machine Learning

Location:
New York City, NY
Posted:
July 25, 2025

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Resume:

Willow Bullen

*** ** ***** *** ******@****.*** Florida Tech

Brooklyn, New York 240-***-**** Mathematics B.S.

linkedin.com/in/willowbullen data.tree.nyc Computer Science B.S. Software engineer, with seven years of experience in video ads serving at Google, seeks a position in software development. Strong background in mathematics, backend development, and machine learning. Has experience leading teams of engineers in programmatic advertising and conducting coding interviews with prospective employees.

EMPLOYMENT

2019- Data Tree Consulting Self Employed

Assisted clients in coding & content creation

2012-2019 Google 111 Eighth Ave NYC Software Engineer for Advertisements

Wrote, Design Documents, Proposals, Incident Post Mortems, Documentation

Worked as on-call responding to incidents and leading triage

Wrote and reviewed high quality, well documented and tested code

Built software that was highly-available, low latency &, fault tolerance

Served as release engineer responsible for deploying 10,000+ servers globally

Was the go-to expert on reporting, dashboards, and monitoring

Led team in high priority overhaul of division's monitoring and alerting

Built high quality dashboards used by management, engineering, and sales 2008-2012 Intelligent Automation Inc. Derwood, MD Researcher & Software Developer

Wrote Proposals & Research Papers (see selected publications)

Wrote code simulating taxing of Airplanes at US airports

Designed and implemented novel network security protocol

Automated rewriting of C code, via compiler parse trees

Built a security tools to handle IPV6 & IPV4

Administered company website and source code

Contributed Open Source Projects: CORE, uDig, OpenWrt COMPUTER SKILLS

C & C++ PHP & Perl Google Cloud Git & Maven CI/CD PyTorch Python Lisp & Haskell Microserivces React & Next.js RPCs Matlab SQL Java & Spring Protobuffers Django & Node.js APIs Matplotlib Go Javascript & Typescript Big Query Scapy & Numpy REST Mathematica Excel Linux & Bash Excel Kubernetes & Terraform Data Visualization Firebase VAST

Prepared: July 23, 2025 Over

Willow Bullen

EDUCATION

2007 Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL B.S. Computer Science Cum Laude B.S. Mathematics Science Cum Laude

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS Please note these papers were published under my previous name Harry Bullen 2010 “IANetServ: Design and Implementation of Robust and Auto-configurable Network Service for Airborne Networks”, MILLCOM 2010 w/ IAI 2007 “An Evaluation of Models for Temporal and Spatial Terrain Coverage”, International Symposium on Intelligent and Distributed Computing, w/ Ronaldo Menezes SPECIAL INTRESTES

Figure Skating Writing Fantasy Playing Roller Derby Dungeon Mastering D&D Prepared: July 23, 2025 Over

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ETXRA Skills

Containers and VMs

Scapy

Linux & Bash

VAST

Borg Kuberneetes kubernetes

Map Reduce

ProtoBuffers Data Visulization

Java JUnit

Test driven development

Maven

C & C++ PHP & Perl Google Cloud Git & Maven CI/CD PyTorch Python Lisp & Haskell Microservices React & Next.js RPCs Matlab SQL Java & Spring ProtoBuffers Django & Node.js APIs Matplotlib Go HTML & Javascript Big Query Kubernetes & Terraform REST Mathematica C & C++ PHP & Perl Google Cloud Git & CI/CD Tensor Flow PyTorch Python Lisp & Haskell Microservices React & Next.js Jupyter Matlab SQL Java & Groovy ProtoBuffers Django & Node.js Pandas Matplotlib Go HTML & Javascript Big Query Kubernetes & Terraform GIS Mathematica Protobuf

gRPC > google RPC thing

Numpy & SciPy

Apache

Big Query is a data Warehouse

API, REST APIS

Terraform Brog config files

Prepared: July 23, 2025 Over

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Monitoring Borgmon and Monarch

CORE stands for Common Open Research Emulator

Data Tree life explanation

Helped me through a major life transition that included multiple surgeries HIGHLIGHTS

Led Department Wide Monitoring & Alerting Overhaul Big Data, C++, Python

In response to undetected failure costing > $100K/ hr

Led team of 12 over multiple months

Made weekly reports to VP

Made the case for standardizing monitoring & alerting over whole division

Rewrote department monitoring & alerting policy for X0,000 servers

Presented results to +100 engineers

Conceptualized, Built, & Maintained Video Ads Dashboard Big Data, SQL, Python

“My new home page for video” ~Aparna Pappu, Director

Led project over 7 years, with multiple reports over that time

Made it a model for dashboards across the division

Led training on usage

Identified & Corrected Video Filtering Fault Backend, C++, Statistics

This fault affected many publishers

Owned whole life cycle, conception, implementing, testing, deployment

Ran experiments to confirm revenue lift of ~0.2% or $X millions per year Automated Outage Root Cause Analysis via Supervised Learning AI/ML, Python, SQL

Collected labeled data & trained linear regression model

Identified causes of failure by examining model weights

Saved time responding to multiple outages that cost ~$10K / hr Created Embedded Low Latency Image Recognition System AI/ML, Arduino, TensorFlow

Constructed Hardware

Collected and classified ~1000 images

Performed Transfer Learning with MobileNet

Prepared: July 23, 2025 Over



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