William Leung

Computer Science Student at Cornell University [cite: 4]

An aspiring software engineer passionate about solving real-world problems by crafting performant, user-friendly applications that blend technology and creativity.

Work Experience

May 2025 – Present

Development Manager · SeaBridge Sustainability

  • Architected an enterprise RAG platform on AWS for ESG data processing[cite: 18].
  • Shipped AI agents that automated 85% of manual ESG workflows, cutting report generation time by 90% (from weeks to days)[cite: 19].
AWS BedrockLangGraphFastAPIMongoDBRAG
Jun 2024 – Aug 2024

Software Engineering Intern · NetApp

  • Engineered a fully AWS S3 compliant API (GetObjectAttributes) in C++ for the ONTAP storage system, supporting 25K+ concurrent requests for 10K enterprise clients[cite: 23].
  • Delivered production-ready code with 97% test coverage across 70+ tests, achieving a zero-defect release[cite: 24].
C++AWS S3Distributed SystemsAPI Design
Aug 2023 – Present

Head Teaching Assistant · Cornell University, Analysis of Algorithms

Ensured fair and consistent grading for a 400+ person class by coordinating a team of 14 graders[cite: 27].

LeadershipEducationGrading
Jul 2023 – Oct 2023

Frontend Developer Team Lead · Global Business Consulting Services

  • Led a cross-functional team of 7 engineers through Agile sprints, delivering 9 major feature releases on schedule[cite: 32].
  • Delivered a real-time fleet management app tracking 2K+ vehicles with 99.9% uptime[cite: 30].
  • Implemented a CI/CD pipeline, accelerating feature delivery by 20%[cite: 31].
ReactJSTypeScriptAgileCI/CDTeam Leadership

Key Projects

Apr 2025 – May 2025

Tree of Thoughts (ToT) LLM Framework Enhancement · Personal Project

  • Enhanced an LLM reasoning framework by integrating a custom reinforcement learning component in PyTorch.
  • Reduced API costs by 100x and latency by 75% while maintaining 92% accuracy on math reasoning tasks[cite: 36].
PyTorchReinforcement LearningLLMAPI Cost Reduction
Mar 2024 – May 2024

UpStyle: AI Outfit Recommender · Personal Project

  • Built an end-to-end ML pipeline, scraping 30K+ fashion items from 7 e-commerce sites[cite: 38].
  • Fine-tuned a sentence transformer, allowing users to search with natural language to get outfit recommendations[cite: 38].
ML PipelineWeb ScrapingSentence TransformersFine-tuning
Aug 2023 – Present

Data Team Lead, GeoData Project · Cornell University

  • Deployed a computer vision pipeline processing 70K+ BirdCam frames daily using YOLO[cite: 41].
  • Built ML models to predict harmful algal blooms with 85% accuracy[cite: 42].
  • Created a visualization that identified 15% potential energy savings on campus[cite: 43].
Computer VisionYOLODynamoDBPoisson RegressionNeural Networks

Education

Cornell University [cite: 4]

Expected Dec 2026 [cite: 5]

M.Eng. in Computer Science [cite: 5]

B.A. in Computer Science, GPA 4.0 [cite: 6]

Minors in AI and Data Science [cite: 6]

Technical Skills

ML/AI

PyTorchTensorFlowscikit-learnLangChainYOLO

Languages

PythonC++JavaTypeScriptSQLR

Cloud & Data

AWSGCPDockerPostgreSQLMongoDBVector DBs

Beyond the Code

Long distance running Pickleball Language learning Cognitive science Creative writing