Hugh Wimberly
Verified Expert in Engineering
Python Developer
San Francisco, CA, United States
Toptal member since June 7, 2018
Hugh has over thirteen years of professional experience developing software for scientific and business customers. He was one of the core developers on the graph database that powers Google's semantic interpretation of search queries and has worked on mission-critical software for Los Alamos National Laboratory. His focus is on building flexible high-performance architectures that scale well and adapt to changing needs.
Portfolio
Experience
- Python - 13 years
- Machine Learning - 12 years
- Test-driven Development (TDD) - 10 years
- Data Analysis - 9 years
- JavaScript - 5 years
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) - 3 years
- AWS Lambda - 2 years
- Serverless Architecture - 1 year
Preferred Environment
PyTorch, Pandas, Python
The most amazing...
...thing I've created is an in-memory peta-scale distributed graph database.
Work Experience
Back-end Architect
Skill Blaster
- Reduced the AWS bill by 80% by applying best practices to DynamoDB usage.
- Improved the page-load speed by five times by prefetching and prewarming serverless APIs.
- Eliminated the need for additional Redis hosting and caching.
- Reduced the API latency by 70% by increasing parallelism and modifying DynamoDB calls.
- Proposed options for further long-term improvements.
Senior Back-end Engineer
Udacity
- Optimized the back-end to reduce CPU usage by 70% and decreased the App Engine bill by $30,000/month.
- Migrated a legacy monolithic app engine site to AWS microservices.
- Internationalized and localized the main website for the India launch.
- Replaced the payment back-end in order to add Stripe support.
- Initiated a company-wide issue list to streamline employee processes.
Software Engineer III
- Added OCR and object graph queries to the Android M kernel.
- Performed R&D work on a Google-scale in-memory distributed graph database.
- Wrote two optimizing query compilers (for two source languages).
- Created a visual debugger for inspecting graph diffs.
- Led the project test infrastructure improvements.
Scientist II
Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Designed and prototyped a 100,000–node fully decentralized command-and-control framework.
- Wrote firmware patches to update network packet capture software for new 10G interfaces.
- Carried out experiments to compare architectures for a custom petabyte-scale database.
- Assisted in the design and analysis of a 10,000–subject phishing experiment.
- Managed a data analysis with a MapReduce framework.
SDE Intern
Microsoft
- Developed an antiphishing feedback site to coalesce IE user experiences into a knowledge database.
- Constructed prototype server frameworks to evaluate replacements for IE’s antiphishing service.
- Discovered and repaired a latent security vulnerability in the Microsoft antiphishing servers.
Experience
Structured Data Extraction from Scanned PDFs
https://github.com/project-deepform/deepformSpanish Stemmer
https://github.com/moredatarequired/stem-pagerEducation
Master of Science Degree in Computer Science
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology - Socorro, NM, USA
Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - Troy, NY, USA
Certifications
AWS Certified Developer — Associate
Amazon
AWS Certified Solutions Architect — Associate
Amazon
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Pandas, PyTorch, Vue 2, MPI, Node.js, React, OpenMP, TensorFlow, Keras
Tools
Git, Shell, Zsh, Apache Airflow
Languages
Python, Transact-SQL (T-SQL), SQL, C, JavaScript, Active Server Pages (ASP), Java, C#, C++
Storage
Azure SQL Databases, Amazon DynamoDB, SQL Server 2016, Redshift, Graph Databases
Paradigms
Serverless Architecture, Test-driven Development (TDD), Behavior-driven Development (BDD), Agile Software Development, MapReduce
Platforms
AWS Lambda, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Linux, Azure, Kubernetes, Google App Engine, NVIDIA CUDA, Docker
Frameworks
Hadoop, .NET, Express.js
Other
Data Warehouse Design, Data Warehousing, Data Analysis, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Neural Networks, Orchestration
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