Experience
Junior Software Development Engineer
Amazon Web Services
Jun 2023 - Present
San Luis Obispo, CA
- Built scalable evaluation pipeline using AWS ECS Fargate, SQS, and EFS with automated visualization dashboards, enabling rapid cost-performance optimization without manual testing or customer input.
 - Architected autonomous RAG optimization framework that auto-generates QA pairs, performs intelligent clustering, and evaluates recall@k metrics to determine optimal model and configuration settings for any customer dataset.
 - Spearheaded multiple Proof of Concept (POC) Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions for municipal clients, including San Luis Obispo and San Diego, addressing specific city challenges utilizing graph based RAG.
 - Trained autoencoder and regression models using scikit-learn, TensorFlow, and SageMaker to assess property values for the Alameda County Assessor’s Office
 - Built an end-to-end pipeline for extracting data from podcasts and videos into vector databases for RAG applications using AWS Transcribe, Textract and OpenCV, facilitating advanced content retrieval
 - Developed MyECISO, a chatbot that evaluates and provides feedback to clients’ cybersecurity teams, based on the NIST cybersecurity framework, in collaboration with San Diego Cyber Center of Excellence
 - Apache Beam
 
Software Engineer Intern
Stealth Startup
Jun 2024 - Sep 2024
San Francisco, CA
- Fine-tuned LLMs using PyTorch and Transformers, improving text generation quality and classification accuracy
 - Developed and optimized large-scale synthetic data generation pipelines for training LLMs, enhancing training efficiency and reducing data preparation time
 - Developed a custom scoring system combining lexical and semantic search scores, improving search accuracy for Graph RAG
 
Machine Learning Research Assistant
Argonne National Laboratory
Jan 2024 - Sep 2024
Lemont, IL
Software Engineer Intern
Ryde
Apr 2023 - Jun 2023
San Luis Obispo, CA
- Fine-tuned LLMs using PyTorch and Transformers, improving text generation quality and classification accuracy
 - Developed and optimized large-scale synthetic data generation pipelines for training LLMs, enhancing training efficiency and reducing data preparation time
 - Developed a custom scoring system combining lexical and semantic search scores, improving search accuracy for Graph RAG
 
Education
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Jun 2026
GPA: 3.8
Skills
Languages:Java, Python, C, C++, SQL, JavaScript, R, Dart
Frameworks:React, Node.js, Next.js, Flask, Streamlit, FastAPI
Developer Tools:AWS, Docker, Git, Jira, Jupyter
Libraries:TensorFlow, PyTorch, LangChain, LlamaIndex, NumPy, Pandas, OpenCV, Matplotlib