Bill Dusch is a neurodivergent machine learning engineer, creative systems thinker, and the human behind The Billistician. With a PhD in physics and a background at IBM, he blends AI/ML infrastructure, decision intelligence, and narrative design to tackle complex problems with clarity and curiosity. Whether he’s building causal pipelines, designing LLM workflows, or crafting speculative systems for fictional worlds, Bill’s work bridges the gap between logic and imagination: sometimes professionally, sometimes prophetically.
He’s led technical efforts across startups and enterprise, including serving as Chief AI Officer at Estimand, and his interests span biotech, education, healthcare, and anywhere structured chaos lives.
He currently lives in Raleigh with two cats (Isaac and Emmy), who supervise all work and occasionally serve as infrastructure metaphors.
When Bill’s not engineering AI infrastructure or mocking startup culture with satire and syntax diagrams, he’s thinking about how people and systems make decisions. He’s driven by a love of structured complexity, pattern recognition, and creative misbehavior. The result: projects that range from functional ML pipelines to speculative tools that blur the line between useful and philosophical.
Bill has led and shipped technical projects across startups and enterprises, focusing on LLMs, MLOps, and decision intelligence tools that make chaos legible.
He enjoys designing languages for fictional cultures, building toy tools with serious insight, and collaborating with his cats, Isaac and Emmy: who may or may not be the actual product owners.