walker northrup|

interests: distributed systems, infrastructure, machine learning, product

engineering

@linkedin — summer 2026 in nyc

executive teaching assistant

@asu — overseeing students & other teaching assistants

engineering

@linkedin — internal tooling to make employees' lives easier

engineering

@sandhills global — data for the agricultural, construction, transportation, and aviation industries

engineering

@alumni direct — product & infra to help alumni connect

selected research

@wacv2026 — What Matters in Reinforcement Learning Based Training for Medical Vision Language Model: An Empirical Study