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Los Angeles 2049

Benjamin GladneyAI & Software Engineer

About Me

Data Science student at the University of Waterloo with an interest for machine learning, web development, and solving complex problems.

Honours Data Science, BMath

University of Waterloo

Sep. 2024 - May 2029 (Expected)

Relevant Coursework

Data Structures & AlgorithmsObject-Oriented ProgrammingCompilersComputer Architecture

Activities

  • Data Science Club
  • Applied Math, C&O Club
  • Various Hackathons + Datathons
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Experience

Machine Learning Engineer (Incoming)

Incoming

Shopify

Sep. 2026 - Dec. 2026
  • >Incoming Machine Learning Engineer joining Shopify for Fall 2026
PythonMachine LearningLLMs

Founding Engineer

Magnolia Education

Feb. 2025 - Present
  • >Built a real-time collaborative math whiteboard on Next.js/Vercel using Konva.js and Yjs CRDT websocket sync for live tutoring, replacing a $6K/year commercial vendor with $600/year owned infrastructure
  • >Building a Socratic Claude API tutor with vector retrieval over a session corpus, plus an OCR-driven worksheet-to-LaTeX pipeline producing aligned-environment math blocks and practice quizzes for tutors
  • >Building an end-to-end student onboarding pipeline (TutorBird API + Kit email + Twilio SMS + Next.js portal) to automate new-student intake for the company's 80+ active students
Next.jsTypeScriptKonva.jsYjsClaude APITwilioVercel

AI / Software Engineer

Practice Better

Jan. 2026 - Apr. 2026
Toronto, ON
  • >Designed a reusable semantic search pipeline (MongoDB) shipped across three production surfaces: a 3,000+ ticket support knowledge base, the practitioner help centre, and a context-retrieval tool
  • >Built an LLM-powered auto-charting pipeline that generates patient charts from session notes via a chain handler pattern, cutting charting time from 12 minutes to 2 minutes per chart
  • >Developed an LLM-powered ICD-10 diagnosis code classifier across 70,000+ diagnostic codes, suggesting codes from session note summaries at an 83% F1 score
PythonAzure OpenAIMongoDBLLMsSemantic SearchFastAPI

Data Analyst, Supply Chain

Celestica

May 2025 - Aug. 2025
Toronto, ON
  • >Trained a generative AI/OCR model to extract product specifications — case size, resistance, and maximum voltage — from technical drawings at a 97% F1 score, eliminating manual data entry
  • >Built an APIFY-driven scrape + Python/Pandas ETL pipeline; raised benchmarked-part coverage by 18% and total dollar value by 22%
PythonPandasAPIFYOCRGenerative AIETL

Machine Learning Research Assistant

Fluid Flow Physics Group

Sep. 2024 - Present
University of Waterloo
  • >Built a machine-learning regression pipeline mapping laryngeal muscle activations to fundamental frequency and sound pressure level in vocal fold biomechanics, achieving R² = 0.91 on simulation-based acoustic predictions
  • >Authored Python scripts to transform vector data from VTU-formatted files into Pandas data frames then export as CSV for further analysis
PythonScikit-LearnPandasRandom ForestMachine LearningData Visualization
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I'm always open to discussing creative ideas, or opportunities to be part of your vision.