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Experienced Technical Program Manager & People Manager specializing in leading company-wide programs and teams to build AI/ML products, both in creating pre-trained models and fine-tuning pre-trained models, in companies of all sizes, ranging from start-ups & scale-ups to multinational technology companies.Some highlights from the programs and teams that I have led include:✅ Developing and launching Cohere's Command R & R+ models, including the refreshes (Command R & R+ 08-2024), the top enterprise Generative AI models with leading performance in RAG & Multilingual✅ Leading the end-to-end development of tens of productionized ML models at LinkedIn to both improve accuracy & coverage of LinkedIn's Economic Graph, and launch multiple features across all three of LinkedIn's business lines, driving over 500M USD in revenue during my three years at LinkedIn✅ Improving the UX of Siri end-to-end by implementing fixes on the software-side, increasing the precision, recall, and coverage of the associated ML models, and introducing new features that enable users to do more with SiriDue to the wide variety of work I have done within Machine Learning and Semantic Modeling, I have acquired a breadth of domain expertize across the following areas:• Machine Learning: Generative AI, pre-training, post-training, fine-tuning of LLMs, model training, compute planning, recommender systems, classifiers, embeddings, AI safety* Data: data engineering, data acquisition, data management, data annotation, data operations, data pipelines, RLHF, SFT, model-in-the-loop, model retraining feedback loops, red teaming, dynamic adversarial data collection* Semantic Modeling: controlled vocabularies, thesauri, taxonomies, ontologies, knowledge graphs, ML-driven semantic modeling techniques, W3C* Program Management: technical program management, ML program management, agile, scrum, process optimization

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