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hello, i'm william. AI engineer in Atlanta.

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William O. Holden

AI Engineer · Atlanta, GA

AI Engineer at Aderant, building internal agentic and retrieval-augmented applications for the teams behind the company’s legal software. Background spans full-stack development, LLM orchestration, and deep learning for computer vision and NLP, with peer-reviewed research in Computers and Electronics in Agriculture.

Experience

AI Engineer, Aderant (Dec 2025 – present)
Graduate Research Assistant, Computer Vision, University of Georgia, School of Computing (2024 – Dec 2025)
Resident Assistant, UGA Housing (Jul 2022 – Dec 2025): Responsible for communities of 30–75 residents, from community building to crisis response.
Programming Coordinator, Be The Match UGA: Ran bone-marrow donor registration drives and awareness events.
Counselor, Camp Kesem (2023): Camp for kids whose family members have cancer.
Billing Specialist, MSN Health Solutions (2021 – 2023): Medical billing, patient records, and ledgers.

Projects

AI Engineering at Aderant (Dec 2025 – present): Building internal AI applications for the teams behind Aderant's legal software, with a focus on agentic workflows and retrieval-augmented generation.
Broiler Behavior Recognition (2024 – Dec 2025): A spatiotemporal video encoder with metadata fusion (X3D 3D-CNN + YOLO tracking) for automated broiler-chicken behavior recognition. Published in Computers and Electronics in Agriculture. Paper (DOI) Code
DeckTection (Spring 2025): Trading-card identification pipeline (YOLOv12 → SAM2 → Siamese network). YOLOv12 fine-tuned to 99.49% mAP50; ResNet-18 Siamese network at 95% one-shot accuracy across 4,000 cards. Code (team repo)
Whisper Inference Optimization (Spring 2025): INT8 quantization of the Whisper encoder (−70% size, no material word-accuracy loss on LibriSpeech) plus Winograd convolution for 1D layers, 60% compression for mobile deployment. Code (team repo)
Cinema E-Booking Platform (Fall 2024): Full-stack movie booking system built with React, Django, and SQL; led Agile sprints for a 5-engineer team. Code
Evaluating LLMs as Translators (Fall 2025): Korean→English machine-translation study benchmarking 15 systems (commercial MT, frontier LLMs, and local open-weight models) with COMET, BLEU, chrF2, and TER against a published human translation. Code & results
Quant Research Harness (Jun – Sep 2026): A point-in-time equities research system with walk-forward backtests, NLP sentiment signals scored on a local GPU, and a weekly paper-trading rebalance. Code
Homelab (Dec 2020 – present): Self-hosted media, personal cloud, and local AI on my own hardware, with custom MCP servers that let an AI assistant operate all of it. Code
BiteButler (Feb 2023): Hackathon app that picks where to eat by swiping on nearby restaurants, Tinder-style. Code

Education

M.S. Artificial Intelligence, University of Georgia, Dec 2025 (GPA 3.73)
B.S. Computer Science, University of Georgia, Dec 2024 (Honors Program, Presidential Scholar, Dean's List)

Publication

Holden, W.O., Li, G., Agyemang-Duah, E., Poku, R.A., Adenyo, C., Osei-Amponsah, R., Aggrey, S.E. "Spatiotemporal video encoder integrated with metadata fusion for action recognition and behavior analysis." Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 253 (2026), 112159. doi:10.1016/j.compag.2026.112159

Awards

1st place, UGA AI in Livestock and Poultry Farming Conference poster competition (2025)
Publication in Computers and Electronics in Agriculture (2026, IF 10.3)
Rangers Scholarship Fund Merit Scholarship (2022)
Presidential Scholar and Dean's List, University of Georgia

Skills

Languages: Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, Java, C++, C, SQL, R
AI & ML: Agentic workflows, LLM orchestration, RAG, Vector search, PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn, OpenCV, YOLO, SAM, ONNX
Cloud & DevOps: AWS, Terraform, Flux GitOps, Docker, Grafana, GitHub Actions
Web & data: React, Node.js, Django, PostgreSQL, MongoDB
Tools: Glean, Browserbase, Playwright, Postman

Contact

GitHub · LinkedIn · williamhold02@gmail.com · Resume (PDF)

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