# Cole Weis

> Tech Lead at Bilt Rewards

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/coleweis

## Work Experience
### Tech Lead - Resident Loyalty Team @ Bilt Rewards
Jan 2024 – Present | New York, New York, United States

### Backend Engineer with Bilt Rewards @ Bilt Rewards
Jan 2022 – Present | New York, New York, United States

### Machine Learning Researcher @ UVA SpinPhysics Group
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
•	Designed and tested neural net architectures for Compton Form Factor estimation in deeply virtual proton-electron scattering experiments
•	Modeled complex physical equations for graph optimization with TensorFlow functional API

### Backend Web Developer @ WillowTree
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
•	Worked on the creation, integration, and optimization of backend services for one of the top 50 restaurant chains in the US by revenue
•	Managed and maintained a large database of consumer and restaurant information, interfaced with and tested the use of several API’s

### Full-Stack Web Development Engineer @ RecruitiFi
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | New York, New York, United States
• Worked with Ruby on Rails, React and Redux to create/augment features across front and back-end of Company’s flagship web application
• Cooperated with teams of developers & product managers to QA and code review new and augmented features
• Wrote comprehensive unit and integration tests for each new feature
• Worked with database of candidate information to connect potential employees with recruiters and directly to companies

### Machine Learning Engineer @ DataProphet
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
• Performed natural language processing on a database of social entrepreneurship documents alongside full-time developers over GitHub and in-person
• Worked with Python, Doc2Vec, t-SNE, LDA, tf-idf, and scraping data from various sources (jpg, pdf, html)

### Virtual Reality Developer @ SAOTA
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
• Created in-house tools for digital workflow through tethered HTC Vive headsets and Unity 3D, which are now marketed as part of standalone application LuxWalker by Tenebris Labs design studio
• Designed and coded tools to improve user experience, developed compression algorithms for storing user data


## Education
### Bachelor of Arts - BA in Computer Science and Economics Double-Major
University of Virginia

### Artificial Intelligence and Big Data
iXperience

### Advanced Programming iOS App Development
iXperience

### High School Diploma 2018
Western Albemarle High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/cole-weis

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Last updated: 2026-03-31