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Washington Dc-Baltimore Area

Washington Dc-Baltimore Area

Interos is the operational resilience company — reinventing how companies manage their supply chains and business relationships — through our breakthrough cloud platform that uses artificial intelligence to model the ecosystems of complex businesses into a living global map, down to any single supplier, anywhere.Grew the ML Platform team from 1 to 6 in first year (4 Senior Engineers + 1 Mid-level Engineer + Lead)Built an ML Platform supporting 45 models across 4 environments… Show more Interos is the operational resilience company — reinventing how companies manage their supply chains and business relationships — through our breakthrough cloud platform that uses artificial intelligence to model the ecosystems of complex businesses into a living global map, down to any single supplier, anywhere.Grew the ML Platform team from 1 to 6 in first year (4 Senior Engineers + 1 Mid-level Engineer + Lead)Built an ML Platform supporting 45 models across 4 environments, serving >1M predictions/day. (Terraform, EKS, Kubeflow, Istio, Knative, VPC, Oauth2-proxy, ArgoCD, Gitlab CI)Introduced development environments for 20+ engineers providing elastic compute + GPU to support experimentation. (Kubeflow Notebooks, EKS, Istio)Spearheaded the Interos Engineering Blog, establishing a content calendar and editorial board & authoring the first content.Provided architectural/design oversight to breakout team working on building inner-sourced shared solutions. CTO called result "the most elegant solution to this problem I've ever seen" Show less

Evaluated and implemented common capability for ETL jobs. (Prefect on EKS).Designed & built `prefect-deployer`, shared dev tooling used in 455 deployments of 66 ETL jobs (and counting).Advised on architecture for platform rebuild as part of a 7-person team chosen by CTO.Mentored and supported engineers across the company, and published educational repos to upskill others on Kafka, fixtures & dependency inversion for cleaner unit tests.Assisted in onboarding &… Show more Evaluated and implemented common capability for ETL jobs. (Prefect on EKS).Designed & built `prefect-deployer`, shared dev tooling used in 455 deployments of 66 ETL jobs (and counting).Advised on architecture for platform rebuild as part of a 7-person team chosen by CTO.Mentored and supported engineers across the company, and published educational repos to upskill others on Kafka, fixtures & dependency inversion for cleaner unit tests.Assisted in onboarding & orienting key engineering leadership hires (Director of DevOps, Director of Data Architecture, Chief Data Scientist)Selected by VP of Machine Learning to spearhead ML Operations practice, resulting in promotion to Lead MLOps Engineer. Show less

Capital One Financial Corporation is an American bank holding company specializing in credit cards, auto loans, banking, and savings accounts, headquartered in McLean, Virginia with operations primarily in the United StatesSupported efforts to achieve compliance with enterprise Cloud security mandates (validating S3 Bucket Policies, reviewing IAM Trust Policies to establish Least Privilege, simplifying Security Group Ingress Rules by hunting down subnets across VPCs & accounts… Show more Capital One Financial Corporation is an American bank holding company specializing in credit cards, auto loans, banking, and savings accounts, headquartered in McLean, Virginia with operations primarily in the United StatesSupported efforts to achieve compliance with enterprise Cloud security mandates (validating S3 Bucket Policies, reviewing IAM Trust Policies to establish Least Privilege, simplifying Security Group Ingress Rules by hunting down subnets across VPCs & accounts etc.)Automated reporting for cloud infrastructure vulnerability scans (wrote Remedy, a Flask app that compiles vulnerability scans and provides a "timeline" & discussion thread for every EC2 Instance, Containerized Application, and Vulnerability)Led assessment & remediation of difficult cloud modernization efforts (Terraform, Ansible, boto3) Show less

TDS continues to deliver data science consulting, big data analytics, and custom computer programming services that are proven to address business challenges for government agencies, non-profit organizations and private corporations. Clients include the IRS, FINRA, and prime contractor consulting firms.Led development of a graph analytics tool for top-down fraud pattern detection in financial data graphs. (React, Redux, Flask, Neo4j, Docker)Developed framework to support… Show more TDS continues to deliver data science consulting, big data analytics, and custom computer programming services that are proven to address business challenges for government agencies, non-profit organizations and private corporations. Clients include the IRS, FINRA, and prime contractor consulting firms.Led development of a graph analytics tool for top-down fraud pattern detection in financial data graphs. (React, Redux, Flask, Neo4j, Docker)Developed framework to support research in the application of novel deep learning techniques to elicit graph embeddings/representations. Show less

Redhorse Corporation, a program management and technology services company, provides integrated solutions in environmental consulting, energy and climate change, information technology, and intelligence.Designed and implemented a image recognition application for environmental science use case (Flask, Tensorflow).Experimented with different convolutional neural network architectures to maximize F1 score.Built custom sklearn Pipeline components to take advantage of OpenCV… Show more Redhorse Corporation, a program management and technology services company, provides integrated solutions in environmental consulting, energy and climate change, information technology, and intelligence.Designed and implemented a image recognition application for environmental science use case (Flask, Tensorflow).Experimented with different convolutional neural network architectures to maximize F1 score.Built custom sklearn Pipeline components to take advantage of OpenCV pre-processing techniques.Developed web-based utility resulting in a 10x decrease in time spent labeling training data (jQuery).Advised and led front-end rebuild of academic R&D knowledge graph application in React. Show less

Alexandria, Va

Grafik is a branding agency focused on crafting digital brands for B2B, B2C, Nonprofit and government clients worldwide.Led architecture and development of CMS-driven solutions for clients like Strayer & Global Automakers, using Drupal 8 and Pimcore 5.Contributed to the architecture and development of marketing websites for brands like Strayer, Ligado, Politico, Merritt Clubs, JBG and EYA. Developed on Drupal 7, Pimcore 4/5, and Wordpress.Drastically reduced development… Show more Grafik is a branding agency focused on crafting digital brands for B2B, B2C, Nonprofit and government clients worldwide.Led architecture and development of CMS-driven solutions for clients like Strayer & Global Automakers, using Drupal 8 and Pimcore 5.Contributed to the architecture and development of marketing websites for brands like Strayer, Ligado, Politico, Merritt Clubs, JBG and EYA. Developed on Drupal 7, Pimcore 4/5, and Wordpress.Drastically reduced development timelines by building internal tools to streamline internal processes (structured QA spreadsheet with Slackbot integration to close developer-designer feedback loop and closely track live performance/completeness metrics). Built using Google Apps Script, Google Sheets, and Slack Webhooks.Delivered customer persona insights by applying data mining & visualization techniques to client CRM & transactional data. Performed analysis using Tableau and Anaconda toolkit (Seaborn, Pandas, NumPy). Show less

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Selected to be a founding member of GWU's DSI, aiding in bootstrapping the institute as well as supporting technical initiatives.Led deployment efforts in standing up a cloud-hosted information sharing environment for Virginia state agencies, alongside ODNI and AWS.Mentored students in Data Warehousing classes, providing guidance on their semester projects.

Strategic advising on technical development & prototyping of an enterprise mobile solution for brand campaign management

Gray Street Solutions is a boutique, digital-first creative agency, founded on the principle of bringing a “Fearlessly Agile” approach to online communications consulting, open-source web development, and social media campaign management.Led development of a cross-platform mobile application to track a brand’s social media campaigns, using Apache Cordova and Adobe PhoneGap.Developed and maintained digital presences for a variety of trade organizations, defense companies, and… Show more Gray Street Solutions is a boutique, digital-first creative agency, founded on the principle of bringing a “Fearlessly Agile” approach to online communications consulting, open-source web development, and social media campaign management.Led development of a cross-platform mobile application to track a brand’s social media campaigns, using Apache Cordova and Adobe PhoneGap.Developed and maintained digital presences for a variety of trade organizations, defense companies, and nonprofit clients. Developed on Wordpress and maintained on WPEngine managed hosting. Show less

Developed spreadsheet parsing software to automate the data-entry process, eliminating the need for costly temp labor.Explored political ad-campaign spending efficacy using data-mining techniques and Tableau.Performed geospatial joins on shapefile datasets (congressional districts vs. designated market areas) for implementation in campaign efficacy analysis.

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science

Master Of Science - Ms, Data Science, 3.93

Activities and Societies: President of the Data Science Student Council; Graduate Research Associate for the Data Science Institute.

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Tau Kappa Epsilon - Chaplain; ML Researcher in GWU's ART-MED lab, training classifiers to identify human.

Hs Diploma, College Prep

Activities and Societies: International Baccalaurate candidate - College-level Biology, Economics, and English

Education record