Work

WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY

, Head Teaching Assistant

, Jan '22 - May '24, St. Louis, MO

Led TA efforts for Advanced Machine Learning (SP24), Theory of Machine Learning (FL23-SP24), and Data Science (FL21-FL22).

  • Held office hours, managed team of ~30 TAs for a ~225 student class, reworked curriculum, occassionally lectured

SQUARE

, Software Engineering Intern

, June '23 - Aug '23, San Francisco, CA

Designed and revitalized high throughput critical infrastructure for Square Banking.

  • Pioneered effort to deconstruct legacy service responsible for all balance tracking at Square, designed new architecture and data model (Java, Kotlin, tRPC)
  • Led an intern hack week team to develop an internal AI service-specific research agent, using entirely local LLMs (Nous-Hermes-Llama2-13b) and RAG with a handrolled vector DB

WINTICS

, ML Engineering Intern

, February '23 - Apr '23, Paris, France

Trained computer vision models to generate analytics for Smart Cities.

  • MaskRCNN / ConvNeXT for real-time boundary detection / classification of pedestrians, cyclists, etc in frame as well as clothing type and coloration. Deployed to embedded devices on client cameras (PyTorch, ONNX, TensorRT)
  • All work done in French

MICROSOFT

, ML Engineering Intern

, June '22 - Aug '22, Seattle, WA

Researched and implemented deep learning methods for anomaly detection in high-dimensional time series data generated by large scale distributed systems.

  • Pioneered ML work for the Athena team with the goal of diagnosis and prognosis of anomalies within the Azure cloud, and detecting outages before they occur (recently patented!)
  • Novel graph attention network architecture, deployed end-to-end pipeline in Azure ML to client teams
  • First place team at the annual intern Puzzle Hunt (à la MIT Mystery Hunt) out of 1300 entrants

4GIVING

, Software Development Intern

, June '21 - Aug '21, Minneapolis, MN

Revamped onboarding for client non-profits to automate profile and first fundraiser creation with AI.

  • Developed full stack webapp, using company mission statements, social media and other sources as input to a fine-tuned GPT3 to generate target fundraiser samples specific to the organization