Michael Williams

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

ElevenLabs

Co-designed TTS architecture with decoder-only autoregressive backbone and RVQ codec head. Engineered distributed training on H100 clusters and developed real-time audio generation pipeline with sub-150 ms latency.

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Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Accenture

Led RAG engagements and architected agentic AI accelerator on LangChain and LangGraph. Trained domain-adapted ASR models and fine-tuned LLMs with QLoRA, while mentoring junior engineers.

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Senior Machine Learning Engineer

AssemblyAI

Designed streaming speech-recognition models and led self-supervised pretraining. Owned model optimization and AWS inference platform, achieving GPU utilization targets.

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Deep Learning Engineer

Meta

Contributed to speech-synthesis pipeline, porting Tacotron 2 and WaveGlow to PyTorch. Built DDP training scripts and integrated TensorRT plugins for inference optimization.

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Machine Learning Research Intern

Implemented audio preprocessing and dataloader code for TTS experiments. Prototyped attention-based encoder-decoder variants in TensorFlow and built visualization utilities.

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