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Saint Paul, Mn, Us

San Francisco , Ca, Us

Teaching assistant for the highest-rated course for LLM engineering on Maven.com, "Advanced LLM Application Building," taught by Hamza Farooq. https://maven.com/boring-bot/advanced-llm

Building a next-gen Large Language Model (LLM) copilot that empowers Internet consumers with the most factual and reliable information out there, mitigating the misinformation crisis at the point of consumption. Created a multi-agentic NLP pipeline for extracting & evaluating debate claims using Magentic, LangChain, Brave Search, FastApi, and Pandas. Enabled real-time AI fact-checking for the June 27 U.S. Presidential debate.Improved LLM chatbot answer quality by combining prompt engineering with literary techniques such as textual rhythm & register blending, producing markedly smoother user reading experiences.Refactored open-source FreshEval LLM factuality metric by applying Python, Click CLI, and stratified sampling, creating production-ready pipeline for benchmarking of the AVI product's factual accuracy.Implemented custom filtering to limit LangChain agent AVI's web searches to user-defined source domains by mixing OSINT techniques with prompt engineering and Langchain tooling, achieving a unique feature for our chatbot unmatched by any LLM conversational search competitor.Owned development of streaming responses from LLM backend API by combining FastAPI websockets & LLM token streaming with partial stream parsing & event-driven message design, which produces structured outputs from streamed LLM generationsSpearheaded DevOps and LLMOps process build-out through PyTest TDD, deployment automation in GCP, and automated evaluations with Langchain & Langsmith

Conducted bespoke intelligence collection & analysis on 13 global influence operations threat actors, using open-source intelligence tools & methods.Empowered information warfare expert with comprehensive intelligence, translation, and logistical support, strengthening its capacity to investigate propaganda actors at global scale.Leveraged C#, Python, and Azure Cognitive Services to perform data scraping, machine translation, audio transcription, and automated Wayback Machine archiving in support of various investigations.Wrote custom automation for targeted search and archival of tweets from Twitter to Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. When the company director was targeted by a hack-and-leak IO campaign from Russian APT actors & and a notorious disinformation publisher, used this automation to archive all evidence for legal prosecution.Performed API integration, ETL data engineering, and consultation on database/system design to support database on disinformation-for-hire mercenary industry.

Composed 2 semesters worth of open-source training material into an autodidact sabbatical to take the leap into a long-desired career change to Trust & Safety, ranging from threat investigations & intelligence analysis to NLP, ML & AI engineering, and system design for content moderation.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, Us

Spearheaded full-stack development of myTurf B2B administrative interface application for internal consumption with 3 interns as team lead and mentor. Grew the myTurf application’s 2018 annual revenue by 14% as part of myTurf Pro Development & Launch Team, earning Circle of Excellence employee award nomination with the rest of team in 2019. Achieved $16000+ reduction of department’s yearly development expenses by leading refactorization of myToro B2C application's user registration pipeline. Engineered RESTful API applications and integrated them with serverless functions, real-time data stream ingestion, IoT device messaging services, multi-threading, and API gateway offloading pattern, employing ASP.NET Core & Azure. Integrated all APIs with common authentication layer using JWTs & Microsoft Graph API for security compliance.Co-led research effort to set EnterpriseServices team policies & procedures for internal API versioning, bringing team development processes in line with industry best practices. Co-wrote the resulting official standards document for team’s internal wiki.Identified a hidden performance bottleneck in the T-SQL stored procedure of severely under-performing API endpoint, involving stale statistics & operations inserted into intermediate joins on an external database by query optimizer. Subsequent refactoring of procedure improved the runtime by >40%.

Underwent Job-Ready Software Developer bootcamp led by a senior engineer from Accenture. Worked as part of a team to develop an enterprise-grade open-source customer relationship management (CRM) application using Agile-SCRUM methodology. Developed backend (data access layer, controllers, RESTful API) for Accounts, Quotes and Cases/Reporting modules of the application using Node.js and Express 4.x. Led the development of Accounts module. Apart from implementing business requirements, responsible for creating classes & interfaces for each layer and helping other developers in my sub-team with their assigned work. Implemented a scalable design using patterns such as revealing module, async programming, promises, callbacks, singleton, façade, mediator, etc. Debugged the backend using node-inspector and Advanced REST Client (ARC). Followed a strict standards-based JavaScript coding convention based on JSHint & JSCS and behavior driven development approach using the unit testing framework Jasmine. Implemented token-based authentication in the API using Passport. Developed frontend for the assigned modules using React.js, Bootstrap, and Flux data-flow architecture. Wrote controllers and models for Razor-based UI views in Visual Studio ASP.NET C#. Wrote T-SQL stored procedures (using multiple JOINs, conditionals, loops, etc.), functions and triggers for the CRM application’s database in SQL Server 2012. The SPs are called via an ORM in data layer of CRM application.Participated in daily stand-up and weekly sprint review meetings, and performed weekly coding peer reviews.

I was the primary developer and system administrator for the company's new e-commerce website in Magento. I handle front-end UI styling, back-end PHP debugging, database backups, and general Magento customization.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Woodbury, Minnesota, Us

I worked alongside the company President to build the company's new software environment in ResWare. I handled document template importing and editing, object creation for representing clients, backend troubleshooting, business workflow automation, and more.

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

St. Paul, Minnesota, Us

Worked in a small team to prep computer hardware at 16 HealthEast facilities for conversion from Allscripts electronic medical records (EMR) to Epic’s Hyperspace EMR. This resulted in successful conversion of all nurse and provider mobile devices into functional desktops for Epic by the company deadline, and a smooth transition to Epic software for all staff.Troubleshot semi-advanced Windows XP/7 printing issues through the use of Visual Basic Scripting and registry file insertions.Received frequent praise and positive feedback from supervisor for high engagement and thoughtfulness in my work.

Assisted with research on the effects of polymer chemicals on different forms of wastewater. This research will contribute to greater efficiency in water treatment plants.

Northfield, Mn, Us

Engaged in troubleshooting for clients of the IT Helpdesk. Common issues included email account requests, password changes, IP address identification, network connectivity, software restoration, rebinding machines to Active Directory, VPN setup, and file conversions. Provided excellent customer service and communicated effectively to permanent staff members when the situation demanded it.

Northfield, Mn, Us

Connected callers to desired departments, faculty members, and students from general college line. Dispatched campus security officers for crime reports, nightly student transport, and medical emergencies, and additionally dispatched student emergency medical technicians (EMT's) to scene of medical emergencies.

Redwood City, Ca, Us

Represented St. Olaf College to students and visitors through cafeteria food service. My duties also included cleanup and single-handedly managing beverage machine levels during high traffic periods.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Physics

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