ML engineer who ships the whole stack — from enterprise AIOps agents at BMC down to a 360M-parameter LLM answering questions offline on an Arduino.
Optimizing LLMs to run on a new type of DRAM at UCSD's SEELab, working across model sizes from 1B to 7B parameters.
Built a new AIOps tool on the GenAI team folding customers' ServiceNow data into BMC's product line — LangChain/LangGraph CRUD tooling over ServiceNow's REST API, an ASGI server pushing real-time updates, and a semantic model that dynamically parses data configurations. Refactored 1000+ lines into a reusable tool factory that extends to products like Salesforce.
Built a full-stack web app integrating reinforcement learning with a scalable database to evaluate players' chess games and surface move patterns and historical trends, wiring frontend workflows to Flask REST APIs, LangChain, and Google Gemini.
Built a sentiment-conditioned LLM for student mental-health conversations, validated through a 50-sample human evaluation. Optimized a 7B-parameter deployment to run in real time on local hardware, and compressed the training cycle through CUDA optimization across 5,600+ multi-domain samples.
Implemented machine learning and neural network models across ensemble regression, computer vision for digit classification, and NLP. Built a Deep Averaging Network for sentiment analysis on 2,000+ book reviews with a TF-IDF vectorizer, then benchmarked it against logistic regression and LSTM models using AUC ROC.
Researched how far neurofeedback can enhance physical rehabilitation for patients with weak or no motor function. Extracted 100+ papers from Web of Science and analyzed them in R, producing bibliometric and sentiment graphs, then presented a poster of the findings at the Think Neuro Summer Symposium.
Mentored 800+ students through computer systems and software tools — C pointers, dynamic memory allocation, and bitwise operations — tutoring one-on-one, assembling assignments, and proctoring and grading exams.
Embedded systems development in C on a 32-bit ARM Cortex-M STM32. Programmed and debugged electronic speed controllers for brushless DC motor control, UART with interrupts for Raspberry Pi data, I2C for IMU reads, and CAN bus for motor commands and encoder feedback. Sensor-fused accelerometer and gyroscope data with a Kalman filter to kill drift.
An edge AI wildlife identification robot on an Arduino Uno Q: a MobileNetV3-Large TFLite classifier (75%+ accuracy across 51 species, calibrated with temperature scaling and TTA) paired with a quantized SmolLM2-360M via llama.cpp for fully offline inference. RAG over sqlite-vec with cosine-similarity thresholding gates hallucinations, and a networked mode streams to an ElevenLabs agent for conversational narration. Won against 100+ teams.
A 5-state Extended Kalman Filter fusing Adafruit BNO08X IMU data with u-blox C099-F9P GPS to eliminate dead-reckoning drift on a self-driving car. Refactored the vehicle's sensor pipeline into vectorized tuples and built backward-compatibility layers so legacy MPU6050/9250 sensors route into the new EKF without crashing the vehicle loop. Shipped upstream into DonkeyCar, the open-source self-driving platform.
A Unity VR project for building public-speaking confidence by simulating a conference stage. Google Gemini reads the presenter's gaze and hand motions to generate coaching feedback, an Adobe Mixamo audience applauds at the end, and a recording camera lets you rewatch yourself as your own avatar from the audience's seat.
A 2D rogue-like dungeon crawler built in Unity around a vision-loss mechanic, with a storyline about discovering yourself and regaining your sight. Designed multiple levels and enemy types, and showcased it against 30+ teams at the TritonWare GameJam.
Perpetually mid-novel. The queue only grows.
Plays them. Builds them. Hence this whole page.
Weekend fixture. Midfield, mostly honest tackles.
String tricks. You met the physics version up top.
Yes, really. Ask for a demo in the interview.
One email gets you an engineer who documents everything, demos on time — and yes, still brings the yo-yo.
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