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Drew Stackhouse

Software Engineer

Software engineer with 6+ years of experience building production systems across full-stack web, cloud infrastructure, and ML/NLP. Holds an MS in Computer Science from Villanova, with thesis research on parameter-efficient fine-tuning for low-resource indigenous language translation.

Projects

Benchmarked parameter-efficient fine-tuning methods (LoRA, AdaLoRA, DoRA, VeRA, IA³, OFT, BOFT, Prefix Tuning) across 16 indigenous languages of the Americas, examining performance across data regimes from very low-resource (hundreds of sentences) to low-resource (hundred thousands). Advanced neural machine translation for underrepresented languages.

PyTorchHugging FacePEFTPythonVillanova University

M House Studios

In Development

Headless e-commerce platform for an audio equipment design company. Leading the full migration from Shopify to a modern decoupled architecture. Custom Next.js frontend with Cloudflare Workers backend, integrating Shopify Storefront and Cart APIs for product data and checkout.

Next.jsCloudflare WorkersShopify APITypeScriptReact

NeuralTranslate

2020 – 2023

Neural machine translation application for 36+ language pairs. Trained custom TensorFlow models and deployed the full stack on AWS serverless infrastructure (Lambda for inference, ECR for model versioning, API Gateway for REST endpoints) with a Nuxt.js frontend.

TensorFlowPythonAWS LambdaECRAPI GatewayNuxt.js

Experience

Villanova University

Associate Director, Operations Management

2026 – Present

  • Architected workflow automation serving 3,500 students and 300 faculty across 10+ academic processes, integrating with Oracle Banner ERP via custom SQL and REST APIs.
  • Led zero-downtime platform migration from Microsoft Power Platform to SoftDocs Etrieve; built Python data pipelines for enrollment forecasting, demographic analysis, and bulk PDF processing.

Villanova University

Assistant Director, Systems Management

2019 – 2026

M House Studios

Software Engineer (Contract)

2025 – Present

  • Leading headless commerce migration from Shopify to Next.js + Cloudflare Workers, with full technical ownership across architecture, implementation, and deployment.

NeuralTranslate

Independent Developer

2020 – 2023

  • Built and shipped a production neural machine translation app end-to-end — trained TensorFlow models, architected AWS serverless infrastructure, and delivered a Nuxt.js frontend.

Skills

Languages

PythonTypeScriptJavaScriptSQL

Frontend

Next.jsReactVue.jsNuxt.jsTailwind CSS

Backend

Cloudflare WorkersAWS LambdaNode.jsREST APIs

ML / NLP

TensorFlowPyTorchHugging FacePEFT (LoRA, DoRA, VeRA, IA³)

Cloud

AWSCloudflareECRAPI GatewayAmplify

Data

pandasnumpyOracle SQLSQL Server