William Gervasio — CEO
I am a Member of Technical Staff for the Core Product Team at Microsoft AI working on Copilot for Consumers. At Instacart, I led most of the engineering and machine learning work on Receipt Understanding, taking our product from below 50% recall of receipt items matched to our online catalog to 90% recall + 98% precision in under one year, saving many millions per month by addressing discrepancies in every order. I was granted an exception by engineering leadership for promotion under one year a bit after MAI reached out. Before this, I used to apply machine learning to cancer research at Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, which was founded by the Nobel Prize Winner shortly before his passing. It is now run by his associates. I enjoy meeting motivated people and I am always open to chatting :)
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and AI-focused professional with strong expertise in machine learning and software development.
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Experience: 2 yrs 9 mos
Skills
- Machine Learning
- Large Language Models (llm)
- Computer Vision
- Software Development
- Algorithms
Career Highlights
- Achieved 90% recall in receipt matching at Instacart.
- Led AI projects at Microsoft with significant impact.
- Promoted within six months due to exceptional performance.
Work Experience
Self-employed
Angel Investor (5 mos)
Microsoft AI
Member of Technical Staff (8 mos)
Microsoft
Member of Technical Staff (8 mos)
Stealth Startup
Co-Founder (1 yr)
Instacart
Engineering (1 yr 1 mo)
Stealth Startup
Co-Founder (0 mo)
BC Cancer
Cancer Research (1 yr)
The University of British Columbia
Senior Teaching Assistant: Computer Science (4 yrs)
Education
Bachelor of Science - BSc at The University of British Columbia