Marcus Williams
Neuromorphic Software Engineer at Intel Labs
Oregon City, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolMarcus Williams is a Neuromorphic Software Engineer with 11 years of systems, networking, and performance engineering experience, currently advancing neuromorphic runtimes at Intel Labs and contributing to the lava framework. He combines low-level performance work on OpenJDK (C++, assembly, SIMD extensions) with cloud-native and SDN experience—having been a committer on ONAP, OpenDaylight and OpenStack enablement projects. Marcus has full-stack devops chops demonstrated by refactoring core Lava builder modules, fixing packaging, and improving CI/CD for a widely used neuromorphic software framework. He’s comfortable across languages and domains—from kernel/driver validation and DPDK to Go microservices, Kubernetes, and gRPC—bridging hardware-aware optimization with production orchestration. Based in Oregon City, he brings a pragmatic engineering style shaped by both deep benchmarking rigor and a history of enabling fast deployment environments for complex networked systems. An often-overlooked strength is his track record of translating performance research into upstream patches and repeatable release processes that benefit broad open-source ecosystems.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
General Studies, General Studies at Walla Walla Community CollegeArt & Rhetoric, Art & Rhetoric at Whitman CollegeBachelor of Science (B.S.), Information Technology - Focus in Software Development, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Information Technology - Focus in Software Development at Western Governors University
Github Skills (13)
neural-network10
deep-learning10
python10
morph10
cicd9
build-automation9
docker8
web-framework8
unit-testing8
dockers8
githubaction-workflow7
github-ci7
documentation6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
lava-nc/lava
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
A Software Framework for Neuromorphic Computing
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:6 releases, 114 reviews, 49 commits in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Marcus contributed to the development and maintenance of the Lava framework, particularly focusing on core functionalities like process building and runtime services. They implemented features such as automatic runtime stopping and refactored builder modules for improved modularity. Additionally, the user addressed packaging bugs, updated install instructions and CI/CD configurations, demonstrating DevOps skills related to build processes and deployment.
neurosciencepythondeep-learningneural-networksmachine-learning
mgkwill/jdk
Sep 2020 - Aug 2021
JDK main-line development
Contributions:102 pushes, 18 branches in 10 months
javajvmjdk
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