William Acosta
Ph.D. | AI & Data Engineering | Head of Agentic AI Engineering @ DISH Network
- Role
- Head of Agentic Ai Engineering at EchoStar Corporation
- Location
- Denver, CO, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About William Acosta
At Dish, we are working on very exciting new initiatives. My teams, in particular, are building our next-gen Machine Learning & AI platforms to grow our ML scalability across the entire enterprise and serve all of our different business from Boost wireless to Sling streaming to our 5G commentarial wireless and, of course, our Dish satellite TV service.
Experience
Head of Agentic Ai Engineering
Aug 2025 — Present · Denver, CO, US
AI Engineering & Platform Leadership: Direct the development and execution of the enterprise-wide AI strategy.Engineering Standards & Automation: Define and enforce AI engineering standards, implementing automated CI/CD pipelines for reliable and scalable model deployment.Agentic AI Pioneer: Lead the integration of advanced Agentic AI capabilities using A2A and MCP protocols to enable complex, autonomous systems.Unified Data & AI Platform: Oversee the management of the Unified Data Catalog & AI Platform on Databricks, serving as the central hub for data and AI assets.Department Management: Lead and mentor a multi-team department, including Enterprise Data Science, AI & Data Engineering, and AI & Data Cloud Operations.Enterprise Governance: Serve as a key member of the Enterprise AI Office Advisory Group, setting company-wide standards for AI governance, tools, and AI-enabled software engineering.
Education
University of Notre Dame
M.S., Computer Science
2002 — 2005
University of Notre Dame
Ph.D., Computer Science
2005 — 2008
Penn State University
B.S., Computer Engineering
1994 — 1998
Skills
- Software Engineering
- Web Applications
- Hadoop
- React.js
- Test Driven Development
- Data Mining
- Numerical Analysis
- Continuous Integration
- Requirements Analysis
- Cloud Computing
- Extreme Programming
- Java Enterprise Edition
- Continuous Delivery
- Reactor
- Java
- Ruby
- Algorithms
- Software Development
- Python
- Latex
- Cloud Applications
- Rspec
- C
- Programming
- Git
- Javascript
- Agile Methodologies
- Mathematical Modeling
- Databases
- Machine Learning
- Computer Science
- Node.js
- Simulations
- Mongodb
- Big Data
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