# Ethan Walker

> Software Engineer

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/ethanwalker

I am an experienced mathematics researcher at Brigham Young University with a degree in Computational and Applied Mathematics. I have a passion for understanding the beautiful intricacies of mathematics and seeing how they can be applied in  interesting, unconventional, and impactful ways.

I have a lot of experience in teaching and public speaking and I love helping others gain more knowledge. I seek opportunities to work with and help others.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Techcyte
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States
- Collaborated with external partners to adapt Techcyte cloud services to operate on in-laboratory hardware
- Redesigned and expanded authorization system to allow for trusted partner access to user data
- Worked with UX design teams to implement various user interactions and forms

### Software Engineer @ Techcyte
Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco, California, United States
- Integrated instance and semantic segmentation models into existing workflows to provide new product offerings.
- Created maintainable infrastructure to deploy machine learning services in AWS with terraform.
- Experimented with different object detection models to optimize product performance.
- Designed and implemented an extensible automation feature

### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ Brigham Young University
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Provo, Utah, United States
Taught undergraduate courses in designing and implementing code to solve problems with machine learning, data science,  optimal control theory, and modeling.

### Project Supervisor @ Brigham Young University
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
I wrote curriculum and code for the Applied and Computational Mathematics program at BYU. The writing I did is for the Python based labs associated with this program. My areas of work within this project were data science tools, machine learning tools, ODE and PDE solvers, and calculus of variations and optimal control.

I wrote a lab that describes the mathematics behind Naïve Bayes classifiers and instructs students on how to create an NB classifier from scratch. This includes using maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) and Bayesian inference to predict parameters in feature distributions. This lab also included instructions on using the naïve Bayes methods in scikit-learn. I also wrote a lab that describes the mathematics behind optimal control and instructs students on how to code solutions to optimal control problems, such as obstacle avoidance.

I managed others that were also writing curriculum, including advising on pedagogical methods and reviewing instructional material.

### Mathematics Research Assistant @ Brigham Young University
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Provo, Utah Area
Studied network theory, which seeks to rigorously define and describe the complex relationships and dynamics that are found in networks like the world wide web, social networks, and the human brain.
My work is published in the scientific journal Physica A.

### Upper Division Mathematics Grader @ Brigham Young University
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Provo, Utah Area

### Political Science Teaching Assistant @ Brigham Young University
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Provo, Utah Area
I held review lectures, wrote exams questions and essay prompts, and graded exams and essays on topics in American government and politics.

### Chapter VP of Mentoring @ Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Provo, Utah Area
My main goal in this endeavor is to change the culture of STEM undergraduates. Too often we disconnect ourselves from others in this field and this is something that I want to work to change, at least within my school.


## Education
### Master's degree in Applied Mathematics
Brigham Young University

### Bachelor's degree in Computational and Applied Mathematics
Brigham Young University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ethanmwalker
- Website: https://github.com/SocialSalt

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Last updated: 2026-04-01