Wesley Tanner

email: wesley.tanner@gmail.com
location: Los Angeles, CA
github: https://github.com/wtanner
blog: https://wtanner.github.io

Roles and Responsibilities

As an engineering director:

Recruitment and management of teams of 8-12 engineers.
Translation of business objectives into engineering initiatives and product roadmap.
Managing vendors, contractors, and strategic partner integrations.
Project leadership, architecture, and sustained role as an individual contributor.

As a software engineer:

Design, implementation, and operation of production-grade machine learning infrastructure, performing tens of millions of inferences per day.
Apache Kafka, Kafka Connect, and Elasticsearch systems design, tuning, and operations on systems processing billions of records daily.
Design, implementation, and operation of domain-specific large-scale data ingest from external platforms.

As a data scientist:

Design and implementation of domain-specific vector space modeling for natural language processing problems.
Design and implementation of domain-specific classification and regression cost functions mapped to business objectives

As a systems engineer:

Innovative modem design techniques over non-traditional communication channels
Low bit rate voice codec modeling, simulation, and integration.
RF propagation modeling of denied, high Doppler, and severe multipath environments from UHF to EHF.
Tactical data link design, integration and test for various aircraft avionics systems.

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Satellite Systems Engineer, LinQuest Corporation (2006 - 2010). San Diego, CA
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