Me @ The Great Wall

Solving unique problems with AI, quantitative pipelines, and hardware that feel purposeful.

Highland UT

Open to impactful engineering work

Spencer Thompson

Software Engineer • Data Scientist • Technical Lead — building production AI tools, data pipelines, and developer-focused products.

Github · spencer-thompson LinkedIn · the-spencer-thompson

About Me

I design engineering systems that blend AI, data infrastructure, and product polish. From UVU's AI Tutor to macroeconomic market pipelines at System8, I guide prototypes into production while instrumenting telemetry to keep quality intentional.

Skills & Tech

From production systems + side projects

3D PrintingAWSDagsterDockerDocker & ComposeEsp32 / ArduinoExcelFastAPIFastAPI / SQLiteGolangGolang / C++ / SvelteGoogle CloudHetzner VPSInferenceJavascriptManufacturingMongoDBNeovim / LuaPandasPeer-to-peer CollaborationPlausible AnalyticsPythonPython / PyTorchQualtricsQUIC / Low-LatencyRust / FFISQLiteStreamlitTransformer

Experience

Impact-first highlights

Lead Developer · Utah Valley University

Orem, Utah

Feb 2024 — Present

Built and deployed a production AI Tutor integrated with UVU Canvas via a browser extension, enabling course-aware tutoring (syllabus, assignments, grades) and reaching 660+ lifetime users with daily active usage.
Utilized privacy-conscious analytics to improve response quality and measure real-world adoption.
Implemented LLM tool use enabling features such as grades/assignment lookups, course Q&A, URL reading, and sandboxed Python execution.

PythonFastAPIJavascriptDocker & ComposeStreamlitMongoDBPlausible AnalyticsHetzner VPS

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Full Stack Development Chat Interface & Backend.
Database Maintenance & Migrations.
Consistent Refactoring & New Features.
Collecting, Processing & Utilizing Telemetry.

Software Engineer · System8

Clearwater, Florida

Mar 2025 — Aug 2025

Created a data pipeline utilizing 10 years of closing price data from 69 ETFs and 42 Macroeconomic Indices to provide fast and accurate buying indicators for investors.
The pipeline is setup in Google Cloud to run once an hour and stores data in buckets.

PythonDagsterDockerGoogle CloudExcelPandas

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Create / maintain actively used data pipeline.
Pull and process data from Excel / Bloomberg.
Display model data for investors on dashboard.

Technical Lead · Innovation Academy

Orem, Utah

Jan 2024 — Jan 2025

Created a team building application using LLMs and Qualtrics survey data to automatically create 50+ teams. The application successfully handled $500,000 of grant money.
Recruited for and Assisted Managing technical teams for University Corporate Partners.

PythonGolangSQLiteQualtricsDocker & ComposeAWS

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Managed Team of Four Developers.
Responsible for the success of 10+ Projects.
Code Reviews & Deployments.

Projects

Selected work

Multiplayer.nvim

https://github.com/spencer-thompson/multiplayer.nvim

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Built a plugin for Neovim to provide a collaborative editing experience similar to Google Docs.
Used Foreign Function Interface to integrate Rust code for low-latency Peer-to-peer connections.

Rust / FFINeovim / LuaQUIC / Low-LatencyPeer-to-peer Collaboration

Nvim-Transformer

https://github.com/spencer-thompson/nvim-transformer

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Built an end-to-end Machine Learning pipeline for Neovim keystroke telemetry, capturing per-keystroke context to ingest/store 500,000+ events.
Trained a Transformer-based next-keystroke prediction model in PyTorch on time-series editor data.

Python / PyTorchTransformerFastAPI / SQLiteInference

Life Line

https://niculife-line.com/

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Built a speaker play the real-time sound of a parent's heartbeat to their newborn in the NICU.
Connected the prototype speaker to an API that communicated with the Google Fit API.

Golang / C++ / SvelteEsp32 / Arduino3D PrintingManufacturing

Education

Utah Valley University

Orem, Utah

Dec 2021 — Dec 2025

Computational Data Science

3.90 GPABachelor of SciencePresident of The Computer Science ClubGraduated with HonorsMathematics MinorRecieved Honors Program Outstanding Project AwardDean's List 2022-2025Chinese Language Minor