# Gus VanNewkirk

> Software Engineer at Glean

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

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Glean
Jan 2024 – Present | Palo Alto, California, United States
Platforms team

### Software Engineer - Core Platform @ AKASA
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | South San Francisco, California, United States
Designed and built new features for both payer and provider automation platforms, including improved credentials management, bot state recreation, and popup-handling. Rebuilt testing and CI pipelines. Team reduced mean build time, and maintenance time by 80% while growing customer deployments by 10x.

### Software Engineer - Implementation @ AKASA
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | South San Francisco, California, United States
Automated Revenue Cycle Workflows for Health Systems through python bots in Customer Electronic Medical Record Systems. Owned design, build, and deployment of custom product to resolve issues detected in customer EHR which has worked over 80k edits to date.

### Machine Learning Engineer @ CheckSum
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
• Guided data preprocessing strategy for modeling circuit boards as an impedance matrix.
   • Created CNNs to better predict ideal circuit board test program generation.
   • CheckSum is a circuit board testing company.

### Machine Learning Intern @ Pioneer Square Labs
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Seattle, Washington, United States
• Tokenized and chunked text using NLTK to find target phrase structures for an incubated start-up’s foundational product. 
   • Trained ML models to extract priority and pain points of early customers. 
   • Reported to CTO.

### Data Science Intern @ Xnor.ai
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Seattle, Washington, United States
• Supported ML engineers by streamlining data pipeline and annotating data using team-built software. 
   • Xnor.ai is an ML start-up that enables real-time decisions without overloading data networks and with the added security of on-device computing.
   • Xnor.ai was acquired by Apple for $200 million in 2020 for its specialty in AI computing on the edge, in small cameras, sensors, and small devices.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Applied Mathematics – Computer Science
Brown University

### Princeton in Beijing Summer Program in Advanced Chinese
Princeton University

### High School Diploma
Lakeside School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/gus-vannewkirk-a763ab175

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Last updated: 2026-03-29