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Conduct ML research in entity-centric text summarization.

Developed an AI model that generates freestyle song lyrics based on a given context or topic by fine-tuning GPT-2 and scraping lyrics from Genius using Python and Hugging Face Transformers. Participate in Career Readiness research project to fine-tune a large model (RoBERTa) with leadership competency data to predict leadership style labels using Hugging Face Transformers and the pandas Python library.

Maintain the radio station’s website, studio software, and other computing systems (servers, database, etc.). Collaborate with a team of students in the Capstone program to improve the radio station’s software documentation and automation system.

Researched the speed performance differences between Logstash and a Python script when migrating millions of rows of metadata from a PostgreSQL table to an Elasticsearch index. Found that Python script was nearly 35x faster.Increased search speed performance of Elasticsearch by nearly 2.5x by optimizing the number of shards and utilizing explicit field mapping on the index.Updated an Elasticsearch Helm chart to create an index with explicit field mapping as defined by a JSON schema. By utilizing a Kubernetes Job, ConfigMap, and Bash script, the JSON schema is configurable at deployment versus being hard coded in the Helm chart.Secured Kibana as deployed by a Helm chart via a combination of Oauth2 Proxy and Keycloak, requiring users to authenticate before accessing the Kibana UI.Implemented Go interfaces related to connecting to Elasticsearch and writing messages read from a partitioned Kafka topic.

Improved front end of network file system crawler application by designing and implementing an interactive calendar with cron job scheduling functionality using Figma, Vue.js, Vuetify, Vuex and the FullCalendar JavaScript library.Implemented calendar functionality by making calls to a RESTful API to communicate with the application’s back end.Designed and created a dedicated page on the UI for all cron job scheduling capabilities of the application.Worked in an Agile environment with four other team members where we collectively contributed to two software projects for government customers.