# Meredith H. > Founding Software Engineer at Wand Location: New York, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/meredith I'm a machine learning engineer with a focus on developing advanced AI technologies that solve real-world problems and benefit society. I have experience working with state-of-the-art models, including transformers and diffusion models, and I lead backend and machine learning development for an AI-powered platform that helps artists monetize their work while maintaining control of their intellectual property. My long-term goal is to apply machine learning techniques in computational biology and synthetic biology to address challenges such as generative de novo protein engineering, and generally to reduce the assembly needed to program life. ## Work Experience ### Founding Software Engineer @ Wand Jan 2022 – Present | New York, United States We’re building a next generative AI creative tool for the future of digital art, image editing, & 3D modeling • Lead backend development for an AI-powered drawing app that gives artists control over how AI interprets their work, with a focus on ethical use and to monetize their styles, securing $4.2 million in seed funding. • Architect cost efficient micro-service system for generating images with state-of-the-art image to image diffusion and transformer models, and Svdiff and LoRA model fine-tuning. • Manage machine learning and backend efforts, executing on timelines, writing specs, and mentoring two engineers using an agile, experiment-driven approach to deliver key features. ### Software Engineer @ Microsoft Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Redmond, Washington, United States • Developed and maintained backend services for a Microsoft Office’s Planner, a collaborative task management service, using C# and .NET Core, serving 9 million monthly active users. • Implemented CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps, improving deployment efficiency and code quality and a customer facing audit solution for admins to monitor user activity • Led cross-team collaborations to propose new designs, securing approval by aligning solutions with existing practices and accepted approaches. • Gained foundational skills in system design, and maintaining large-scale, industry-level infrastructure. ### Research Assistant (Design Algorithms Society Lab) @ Lehigh University Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 Applied NLP techniques (Labeled LDA, RNNs, CNNs) to analyze media framing in political news using the CMU Media Frames Corpus. Implemented a Labeled LDA model with MALLET to identify key framing terms and compared its performance to deep learning models. Presented findings as part of my senior research. ### Independent Study (Environmental & Earth Sciences) @ Lehigh University Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 Modeled Gypsy Moth spread and tree mortality in the Northeastern U.S. using ArcGIS, R, scikit-learn, and pandas, developing predictive models for conservation efforts. ### Software Engineer @ Microsoft Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Greater Seattle Area ### Software Engineer @ Microsoft Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater Seattle Area ### Software Engineer @ Microsoft Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater Seattle Area ### Software Engineer @ Bloomberg LP Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | New York, New York, United States ### Software Engineer @ Bloomberg LP Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | New York, United States ### Software Infrastructure Engineer @ Morgan Stanley Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Greater New York City Area ## Education ### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science Lehigh University Jan 2015 – Jan 2019 ### High School Diploma in Computer Science & Technology Bergen County Academies Jan 2011 – Jan 2015 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/merhoo - Website: http://merhoo.github.io --- Source: https://flows.cv/meredith JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/meredith/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-20