Forward Deployed Engineer
Aug 2026 – PresentSmile Line AI
San Francisco, CA
- Scoped the AI engine for Smile Line's flagship Smile Lite MDP app with the founding team, from model and data choices to EU and US privacy rules, ahead of deploying it to the company's device and app
- Benchmarked detection models and quantized the chosen YOLO detector to run chairside on hardware the company already ships, so it checks whether each photo is framed correctly while the clinician shoots
Teaching Assistant, 11-785 Introduction to Deep Learning
Apr 2026 – PresentCarnegie Mellon University, Language Technologies Institute
Pittsburgh, PA
- Ported course homeworks to JAX, Flax, and Optax for TPU training with Google, for 300+ students, and authored an LLM pretraining assignment to build a Llama-style model from scratch with RoPE, SwiGLU, and RMSNorm
Research Intern
Jul 2026 – Aug 2026Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA
- Designed a fail-closed policy engine that keeps a governed LLM agent from answering off-corpus and an evidence gate that withheld 296 of 300 claims under speaker overlap with full coverage on clean audio
Machine Learning Engineer
Jun 2024 – Jun 2025Future Educators
Washington, D.C.
- Built an OpenAI-backed RAG advising assistant over 1.2M+ GPT-labeled federal charter school records and deployed it on AWS as a FastAPI service at p95 under 2 s for 300+ daily sessions, 47% faster than manual lookup
- Shipped an LLM document-processing pipeline on Claude 3.5 Sonnet that reached 93% extraction accuracy on a human-labeled eval set and cut manual review time by 70%
Machine Learning Engineer
Jun 2023 – Jun 2024The Heroes Garage
Boston, MA
- Reduced bid error against manual appraisal by 37% with a gradient-boosted model over Carfax history and past sale prices that set the buying team's live bids at Manheim and ACV auctions
- Deployed a repair cost model trained on past repair orders that cut dealer estimate error (MAPE) from 22% to 7%