About the author
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Capsule biography and curriculum vitæ
Here’s a short professional biography that is suitable for adding to talk abstracts:
William Benton is passionate about making it easier for machine learning practitioners to benefit from advanced infrastructure and making it possible for organizations to manage machine learning systems. His recent roles have included defining product strategy and professional services offerings related to data science and machine learning, leading teams of data scientists and engineers, and contributing to many open source communities related to data, ML, and distributed systems. Will was an early advocate of building machine learning systems on Kubernetes and developed and popularized the “intelligent applications” idiom for machine learning systems in the cloud. He has also conducted research and development related to static program analysis, language runtimes, cluster configuration management, and music technology.
You can also download my résumé (current as of mid-2023).
Elsewhere on the web
- I infrequently post shorter pieces on my microblog.
- Nearly all of the open-source software I’ve developed is available from my GitHub page.
- In my spare time, I’m an avid cyclist and enthusiastic photographer.
- I used to use Twitter more regularly and am interested in finding a replacement for the communities I enjoyed there for so long.