Resume
Work
Experience
May 2024 - Present
Solo Founder,
SIMPLtech
Founded SIMPLtech to develop GenAI-native consumer apps using the modern LLM stack from the bottom-up.
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Learn more on my Founder page.
Sep 2023 - April 2024
Builder in Residence,
AI Entrepreneurs at Berkeley
Part of a UC Berkeley entrepreneurship collective exploring the art of the possible in LLM-native applications and startups
Aug 2019 - June 2023
Applied Science Mgr, Machine Learning
AWS ML Solutions Lab (now Gen AI Innovation Center)
I led a customer-facing cross-functional team of machine learning practitioners, including scientists, architects, and engineers.
We helped strategic AWS customers accelerate their adoption of AI/ML by developing custom ML solutions that drive value for their business use cases and processes.
Our team delivered solutions across industry verticals, such as:
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Media & Entertainment
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Financial Services
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Healthcare and Life Sciences
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Sports
We developed applications across ML domains, such as :
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LLMs and NLP
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Computer vision
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Recommender systems
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Graph Neural Networks
Apr 2019 - Aug 2019
Sr. Applied Scientist, Machine Learning
AWS ML Solutions Lab (now Gen AI Innovation Center)
Oct 2017 - Apr 2019
Applied Scientist II, Machine Learning
AWS ML Solutions Lab (now Gen AI Innovation Center)
Oct 2017 - Apr 2019
Data Scientist Intern
fast.ai
Researching in deep learning under Jeremy Howard and Rachel Thomas through and in
addition to their Deep Learning Courses at the University of San Francisco Data Institute.
Education
2021 - Present
UC Berkeley Haas | MBA
Evening & Weekend MBA
2017
USF | M.S., Data Science
Master's program in data science, AI, and machine learning.
2015
USF | B.S., Mathematics
Bachelor's in Pure Math.
Skills
& Expertise
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AI, machine learning, deep learning, data science
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Custom-modeling, fine-tuning, model compression, knowledge distillation
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Transformers, CNNs, GNNs
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PyTorch, Tensorflow, Keras, MXNet
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Distributed training, HPO, edge deployment
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AWS, cloud deployment, pipeline
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Python, React Native, mobile app development