A full-stack data professional specializing in cloud-based ML. Proven experience with the full machine learning lifecycle from modeling through deployment. Previously worked as a structural project engineer/manager.
Work Experience
Cipher Mining
Lead Machine Learning Engineer
Denver, CO
Aug 2023 — Present
Productionizing models to control 200MW+ of data center operations.
Built algorithmic power trading models responsible for the automated execution of >$1.8M in trades.
Developed internal MLOps tooling used across 10k+ model re-deployments with automated drift detection and re-training capabilities.
Architected and deployed a highly available model training/serving platform using Ray + Kubernetes hosting 250+ power trading models and serving >10k predictions per day.
Evolve Vacation Rental
Machine Learning Engineer
Denver, CO
Feb 2022 — Aug 2023
Creating full-stack data products to support business stakeholders.
Improved existing reservation prediction model performance by 3x using Apache Spark.
Created an owner abuse detection application using Streamlit and FastAPI with projected savings >$1M and efficiency savings equivalent to 3.6FTE.
Developed a ChatGPT powered listing content automation app that led to a 10% reduction in listing build time.
Developed in-house MLOps platform responsible for model telemetry and data validation; caught various upstream data integrity and model performance issues.
Improved team MLOps production deployment process using Docker, Gitlab CI/CD, Prefect, and AWS resulting in >50% efficiency increase for some legacy processes.
UCAR/Unidata
Machine Learning Engineer
Boulder, CO
May 2021 — Jan 2022
Supporting the atmospheric machine learning research communities by adopting cloud first data practices.
ARPG
Graduate Research Assistant
Boulder, CO
Jun 2020 — May 2021
Graduate research assistant in the Autonomous Robotics and Perception Group (ARPG). Thesis involved deep learning, multi-agent reinforcement learning, and motion planning algorithms.
KPFF Consulting Engineers
Structural Project Engineer
Sacramento, CA
Sep 2016 — Aug 2019
Project engineer/manager for several building projects from conception through construction. Managed project budgets and regularly coordinated with multidisciplinary teams; internally managed design engineers and support staff. Licensed Professional Engineer (PE) in California.
A river permit scraper with an interactive frontend. Allows users to setup custom Slack alerts when river permit cancellations are detected. Backend uses Supabase for authentication + database and AWS Lambda for scraping.