Kenneth Wilber - Software Engineer & AI Researcher

Greenwich, CT | 203-564-6079 | kawgit56@gmail.com

Experience

DragonGC | Software Engineering Summer Intern (Apr 2024 - Aug 2025)

Built and scaled distributed, AI-powered pipelines to process SEC filings into structured, searchable data using LLM-driven NLP parsing. Developed end-to-end automated tests.

Chess.com | Software Engineering Summer Intern (May 2022 - Aug 2023)

Optimized the world's 2nd strongest chess engine (Torch) by designing sparse neural network inference improvements, boosting speed by 20% and strongly cutting scaling costs. Built core C++ modules for AI Chess Coach.

Projects

Small Language Model

Developed a custom transformer-based language model from scratch with PyTorch, trained on Harry Potter and Fineweb-Edu. Features a BPE tokenizer with a novel deduplication scheme, new architectures including GQA sliding window attention, and Muon-inspired optimizer algorithm changes that cut training time by half.

Chess Engine

Lightweight chess engine utilizing bitboards, alpha-beta pruning, and selective search heuristics in C++, along with a JS web interface.

Video-Based Point Cloud

Implemented a computer vision pipeline to reconstruct 3D point clouds from video footage.

3D Model Renderer

Built a 3D graphics renderer from scratch by rasterizing triangles directly to the screen utilizing low-level math.

Education & Skills

Education: Boston University (BA Computer Science, Expected 2027), Case Western Reserve University.

Skills: Python, TypeScript, C++, Java, SQL, Svelte, Node.js, Bash, PyTorch, NumPy, Matplotlib, OpenCV, Linux, Git, Docker. Focus in ML, Computer Vision, Distributed Systems, NLP, and GPU Acceleration (CUDA).