Software Engineer & ML Researcher

KenWu.

吴锵皓
Based inWaterloo, ON
EducationUniversity of Waterloo, CS '26
StatusSeeking Fall 2026 / New Grad — ML, Systems, SWE
Neo Scholar Finalist5x Hackathon WinnerStanford Code in Place InstructorUndergraduate Research AssistantResearch Exchange — Lancaster University
7
Internships
5
Hackathon Wins
4
Countries
素顔 — Beyond Code

Beyond Code

🇮🇹Born🇨🇳Raised🇨🇦Studying🇺🇸Interned🇬🇧Exchanged
NBA

Fine-tuned an LLM on r/nba posts. Built an AI that roasts bad basketball takes on X.

Chess

Mediocre player. Builds chess bots on the side to compensate.

Philosophy

Minor who thinks about AI alignment when not shipping ML pipelines.

Off-duty

Basketball, poker, anime, and the occasional Leetcode grind.

経験
経験 — Experience

Experience

Nokia

Software Engineer Intern5G Network AgentJul 2025 — Dec 2025Ottawa, Canada
  • Built LoRA fine-tuning pipeline for Qwen generating Camunda BPMN XML with GGUF quantization
  • Designed evaluation framework revealing overfitting from NCSC-only data vs. base models
  • Resolved GPU memory and Triton issues and shipped reusable training tooling for future experiments
Python·PyTorch·Unsloth·Transformer

TD Bank

Data Scientist InternInsurance AnalysisJun 2025 — Aug 2025Toronto, Canada
  • Replatformed pipelines for 1.5M+ rows of data and reproduced a 154,340 row deliverable with 100% parity
  • Automated 30+ minutes of manual ingestion per cycle, cutting QA time by 80% via a parity harness
  • Migrated on-prem pipeline to Azure fully automating runs and saving 2–4 hours/week of manual execution
Python·SQL·PySpark·Pandas·Databricks

Stanford University

Student InstructorTeachingApr 2025 — Jun 2025Stanford, United States
  • Taught Stanford’s Code in Place CS106A course to students globally, taken by 40,000+ students
  • Educated students in Python leveraging beginner friendly libraries including Stanford’s Karel and Tkinter
Python·Karel·Tkinter

August

Software Engineer InternLLM AgentSept 2024 — Dec 2024New York, United States
  • Handled 2,000+ requests/min by deploying 10+ API endpoints using FastAPI, AWS, and Supabase
  • Optimized evaluation cycles for 15+ LLM Agents with a round-robin multi-agent and scoring framework
  • Led the end-to-end development of a multi-agent RAG pipeline powered by LLM-as-Judge strategies
Python·LangGraph·FastAPI·AWS

Health Canada

Machine Learning Engineer InternDocument QAApr 2024 — Aug 2024Ottawa, Canada
  • Built a document QA system using Llama3 7B and ChromaDB for OECD report search and summarization
  • Increased response and semantic accuracy by ~20% using query transformation and contextual memory
Python·Azure·LangChain·Streamlit

Keywords AI

Y Combinator W24
Software Engineer InternResume ParsingMar 2023 — Jun 2023New York, United States
  • Parsed 1,000+ resumes with a spaCy-based NER pipeline to extract structured recruiter data
  • Reduced response delay by 98% through integration of SQLite-based result caching into the parsing engine
Python·spaCy·SQLite

Intapp

Formerly delphai
Machine Learning Engineer InternEntity RecognitionJul 2022 — Sept 2022Berlin, Germany
  • Boosted recall by 20% through improved entity labeling workflows and language-specific training sets
  • Achieved 70% recall by fine-tuning spaCy models and optimizing hyperparameters via WanDB on Azure
Python·spaCy·W&B·BS4
作品
作品 — Projects

Projects

Ding-Bot

Chess engine combining GATEAU-style Graph Attention Networks with contrastive latent-space search

Python·TypeScript·Graph Neural Networks

PokerMon

Deep Counterfactual Regret Minimization (Deep CFR) for 6-player No-Limit Texas Hold'em

Python·Deep CFR·Game Theory

LeGM-Lab

AI-powered NBA take analyzer that fact-checks basketball opinions with real stats and roasts bad takes on X

Python·Claude API·FastAPI·X API

LeLM

Fine-tuned LLM for NBA hot takes, built on Qwen3-8B with LoRA and trained on Reddit r/nba posts

Python·Unsloth·LoRA·Hugging Face

Algoherence

18 stars

Stock trading chatbot democratizing financial literacy with RAG-powered advice and live Alpaca paper trading

Python·LangChain·Cohere·Streamlit

OpenFintech

Financial analysis library for trend following and mean reversion strategies, built for Python developers and analysts

Python·Fintech·Open Source
技術
技術 — Skills

Skills

Languages
言語Languages
Python/SQL/C/C++/TypeScript/JavaScript/HTML/CSS/R/Racket/Bash
Technologies & Cloud
技術Technologies & Cloud
PySpark/NumPy/Pandas/spaCy/MongoDB/Supabase/PostgreSQL/AWS/Docker/Git
Libraries & Frameworks
枠組Libraries & Frameworks
PyTorch/LangChain/Flask/FastAPI/TensorFlow/Keras/CUDA/React/Next.js/Tailwind
連絡 — Contact

Let's build something together.

ken.wu@uwaterloo.ca

Ken Wu

2026