William Gervasio

CEO

San Francisco, California, United States2 yrs 9 mos experience

Key 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.
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Skills

Core Skills

Machine LearningLarge Language Models (llm)Computer VisionSoftware DevelopmentAlgorithms

Other Skills

Python (Programming Language)C#Microsoft AzurePostgreSQLApache SparkAmazon Web Services (AWS)Natural Language Processing (NLP)Bayesian inferenceDeep LearningResearchVisualizationHigh Performance Computing (HPC)DockerReact.jsTypeScript

About

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 :)

Experience

Self-employed

Angel Investor

Nov 2025Present · 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Angel Investor for Arga Labs (YC X26) before YC ;)

Microsoft ai

Member of Technical Staff

Aug 2025Present · 8 mos · Mountain View, CA

  • 🚀Everything AI-related end to end for Core Product Team.
  • Gatekeeper for prompts and eval strategy across work streams. Codeowner over some questionable backend code and every system prompt.
  • Recruiting and calibrating for our first early career talent cohort! DM me.
  • Contributions (surface wise):
  • Growth, Connectors, Agents (almost every core behavior of Copilot Tasks)
Large Language Models (LLM)Python (Programming Language)C#Microsoft AzureMachine Learning

Microsoft

Member of Technical Staff

Aug 2025Present · 8 mos · Mountain View, California, United States · On-site

  • Needed this to add work verification for Microsoft

Stealth startup

Co-Founder

Jan 2025Jan 2026 · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Figma-to-codebase generation with pixel-perfect Tailwind output. Generated millions of impressions, added thousands of businesses or users to the waitlist and convinced several angel investors. Created an npm package, canvas editor, repo importer, language analyzer, partial html/css unwinding, AI generated storybooks, and more. Shuttered operations after my co-founder decided to pursue other things. We chatted with a16z if that means anything 🤷‍♂️

Instacart

Engineering

Jul 2024Aug 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo · Vancouver, BC · Remote

  • 💵 Led the receipt OCR discrepancy project (operating on 86% of Instacart orders) from under 50% to 90% recall by integrating LLMs into traditional data mining ML. Owned the entire microservice, data pipelines, async jobs, algorithm development, datadog alerts and some data analyses. This problem was considered impossible with high fidelity for years and saves $2-3M a month. Planned improvements to expand the impact of this system to $10M+ a month given 98% precision - creating more algorithms and pipelines for product pricing, fraud and order quality work streams.
  • Executed one of the first LLM integrations in fulfillment, optimized pyspark ML pipelines to be 20x faster, decreased system latency from 30 secs to 3 secs, built human eval system for receipt extraction and item matching.
  • Promoted before the fastest time possible, gaining an exception due to ranking within the top 5% of performers within my first 6 months (took 3 months for the promotion cycle to finish).
  • Also helped across card payments (Stripe, Marqeta), transaction rejections and tax suppression with millisecond and 99.99% reliability SLAs. Bonus: implemented company wide log sampling for python microservices.
Large Language Models (LLM)PostgreSQLApache SparkMachine LearningAmazon Web Services (AWS)Python (Programming Language)

Stealth startup

Co-Founder

Jan 2024Jan 2024 · 0 mo

  • 🎥⏺️ AI agents that operate computers. We were a bit too ahead of our time before models could work effectively in this space and sales didn't quite work out. Had some angels and YC wanted to chat at least 🤷‍♂️. Full credits to Charles for being the mastermind behind the idea and v0.
Large Language Models (LLM)Software DevelopmentMachine LearningAmazon Web Services (AWS)Python (Programming Language)Natural Language Processing (NLP)+2

Bc cancer

Cancer Research

Jan 2023Jan 2024 · 1 yr · Vancouver, BC

  • 🧬 Deep learning, bayesian methods, HPCs, computer vision, and some full stack development for single cell sequencing at Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Center (founded by the Nobel Prize Winner).
  • Yes, it was founded by the Nobel Prize Winner before he passed, read the backgrounder: https://archive.news.gov.bc.ca/releases/news_releases_2020-2024/2023HLTH0035-000911.htm
ResearchSoftware DevelopmentAlgorithmsMachine LearningComputer VisionPython (Programming Language)+6

The university of british columbia

Senior Teaching Assistant: Computer Science

Jan 2020Jan 2024 · 4 yrs · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

  • 🧑‍🎓 Maintainer for MOOC Micromaster programs for Software Development in Racket (sub languages) and TypeScript having over registered 188,700 students. Featured on OSSU Computer Science GitHub repository, which has 170k+ stars.
  • Mainly helped introduction to programming (CPSC 110) solving problems such as graphs and search for ~700 students per term. Actively led labs and made 3k+ contributions to question threads on programming problems as complex as generative recursion, search, and graphs.
  • Also helped with intermediate algorithm design and analysis (CPSC 320) for graphs, greedy, DP, and NP problems for ~ 200 students.
  • Made the main autograding systems for statistical modelling in data science (STAT 301).
  • Served for ~10 academic terms.
TypeScriptSoftware DevelopmentAlgorithmsCommunicationJavaScriptData Structures+3

Education

The University of British Columbia

Bachelor of Science - BSc — Computer Science

Jan 2024Present

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