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
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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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PRIVATE NOTES NOT FOR INCLUSION IN RESUME
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
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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
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