A full-stack data professional specializing in building and operating cloud-based AI/ML products.
Experience
Cipher Digital
August 2023
- Present
Lead Machine Learning Engineer
Developed ERCOT nodal price prediction models used to drive curtailment decisions for >300MW of data center load.
Built and operated MLOps platform for hosting 250+ models and making >10k real-time inferences 24 hours per day.
Developed RAG pipelines to ingest operational/meeting transcript data to support business users with cloud-based agents via MCP.
Devloped agentic application coding framework to allow non-technical business users to deploy/secure their apps.
Architected FIX-based power trading application to algorithmically trade ERCOT power futures.
Evolve Vacation Rental
February 2022
- August 2023
Machine Learning Engineer
Developed an internal LLM listing content app that led to a 10% reduction in listing build time.
Created an owner insurance abuse detection app resulting in >$1M in savings from rejected fraudulent claims.
Developed MLOps platform responsible for model telemetry and data validation.
Developed model deployment CI/CD framework resulting in 50% reduction in deployment time vs legacy processes.
Improved existing reservation prediction model performance by 3x using Apache Spark.
UCAR/Unidata
May 2021
- January 2022
Machine Learning Engineer
Integrated machine learning visualization capabilities into AWIPS. Presented poster at AGU 2021.
ARPG
June 2020
- May 2021
Graduate Research Assistant
Completed thesis work on multi-agent reinforcement learning.
KPFF Consulting Engineers
September 2016
- August 2019
Structural Design Engineer
Design engineer/project manager for several projects in the Northern CA assisted living, public works, and education market segments. Licensed Professional Engineer (PE) in California.
An online scraper with an interactive frontend. Uses AWS Lambda functions to scrape rec.gov for available river permits and alerts users via Slack when their selected permit has become available.