01Experience

Work History

Amazon — Smart Vehicles

Software Development Engineer Intern

Jun 2026 — Present
  • Compress and adapt multimodal foundation models for deployment directly on vehicle hardware.
  • Build the inference stack powering in-vehicle voice assistants, from speech recognition through response generation.

Amazon — Leo (formerly Project Kuiper)

Applied AI Engineer (contract)

Jan 2026 — May 2026
  • Forecast space policy shifts across government agencies using an ensemble of time-series foundation models.
  • Structure large unstructured document corpora into clean, deduplicated topic clusters for downstream modeling.
  • Improve signal quality in noisy policy data through temporal smoothing and filtering techniques.

Mercor

Software Engineer

Nov 2025 — May 2026
  • Build preference datasets for RLHF alignment of multimodal foundation models on complex tasks.
  • Establish human performance baselines for autonomous agents operating across technical environments.
  • Construct supervised fine-tuning datasets for advanced programming and agentic terminal workflows.

General Dynamics Information Technology

Software Engineer Intern

Jun 2025 — Aug 2025
  • Deploy a computer vision module for real-time vehicle detection within a multimodal ML system at the edge.
  • Harden model robustness against distribution shift through adversarial training techniques.
  • Optimize the inference pipeline for low-latency operation on streaming data using quantization and concurrency.

General Dynamics Information Technology

Engineering Project Lead (contract)

Jan 2025 — May 2025
  • Lead a cross-functional engineering team building an agentic RAG pipeline over a large-scale document lake on AWS.
  • Architect a hybrid graph and vector database design to dramatically improve data discoverability.
  • Enhance retrieval quality through custom semantic chunking and entity-aware metadata enrichment.

Booz Allen Hamilton

Engineering Project Manager (contract)

Sep 2024 — Dec 2024
  • Build full-stack tooling to automate medical policy extraction with real-time editing and annotation capabilities.
  • Engineer backend data pipelines and web scraping systems for large-scale document aggregation.
  • Integrate NLP models for compliance automation across summarization, extraction, and sentiment tasks.

Internal Revenue Service

Software Engineer Intern

Jan — Dec 2024
  • Maintain ETL workflows underpinning enterprise fraud detection and tax compliance systems.
  • Modernize CI/CD pipelines and version control integrations as part of infrastructure uplift.
  • Migrate legacy systems to current build automation frameworks to accelerate deployment cycles.
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