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San Francisco, Ca, Us

Wilmington, Delaware, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

- Implemented PyTorch DataParallel and multiprocessing for multi-GPU training.- Utilized CUDA for GPU acceleration with PyTorch.- Built applications IN C/C++ in Google Colab using CUDA for GPU programming- Implemented chain-of-thought and few shot prompting techniques for LLMs hosted on AWS bedrock to prototype customer interaction for with new Alexa Skills 2.0 for smart home device interaction.- Prototyped offline language models for smart home devices leveraging distillation to enhance capabilities of IoT devices.- Fine tuned and distilled models on a curated dataset of smart home commands and queries.- Used post-training quantization to reduce model size. - Built and deployed reusable LLM applications using models Claude and Titan on AWS Lambda, leveraging the power of BedRock and LangChain.– Developed and executed Alexa’s energy dashboard launching with 10 partners to support Amazon 2019 Climate Pledge to be net zero carbon by 2040 resulting in > 1M customers visiting the energy dashboard weekly in the Alexa App; and 2) ~670K customer visits to the energy dashboard landing page on Amazon.com with > 30% of visits converting to sales for partner devices.– Co-led the launch of Alexa’s first ever AI control hunches with Alexa’s biggest partners accounting for >90% smart home. This included the Alexa.AutomationManagement API which used a newly developed Alexa scheduler for handling home/away settings based on customer GPS coordinates to automate device control for lights, thermostats, water heaters and robotic vacuums launches.– Co-led architectural development for Alexa’s Time Series Service and Energy Consumption Estimator for measuring device energy consumption behind > 30M devices connected to the energy dashboard.– Collaborated with cross-functional teams to launch the Alexa Connect Kit chip designed as a low-cost solution for developers to onboard non smart devices to Alexa. The product had significant growth over 5 years selling ~2.85 M units.

Redmond, Washington, Us

- Co-led partner initiatives to launch LLM applications using Azure AI and Machine Learning Studio.– Met with the CTO of Korean Airlines to adopt Microsoft’s cross-platform mobile solution, Xamarin, for allcompany mobile development. This led to onsite work with internal development teams teaching Xamarin using a translator. Korean Airlines adopted Xamarin for all internal mobile applications including one app being used across 16K employees.– Authored Xamarin Blueprints, a developers guide to building cross platform mobile applications which has sold > 3000K copies world-wide.– Led APAC technical workshops for mobile/desktop app development resulting in > $1 MIL Azure consumption.– Led Asia technical workshops for blockchain resulting in > $200K Azure consumption.– Co-led development for Azure’s first ever cognitive services mobile app demonstrating AI Vision across iOS and Android which was presented during a keynote to > 600+ audience for the 2018 Azure APAC Summit.– Led strategic initiatives for Microsoft's ANZ Blockchain business for Enterprise partners building prototypes on Azure to demonstrate reward points with Singapore Airlines, hotel bookings with WebJet, and supply chain with 3M.– Delivered key note speeches to multiple Azure summits for mobile, blockchain and microservices on Azure across the Philippines, Indonesia, South Korea, Thailand, Sri Lanka and the US to audiences of between 500-1000 people.

Southbank, Victoria, Au

- Lead app engineer driving applications across desktop and mobile for iOS, Android, MacOS and Universal Windows Platform (UWP).– Co-led architecture design for game clock synchronization with Signal R.– Designed new standard MVVM architecture for all company mobile and desktop applications in C#.– Architected an asynchronous mobile cache for handling the display of large data sets on ListViews withmass updates occurring within 1 second.– Created custom UI components for Drag/Drop UI between iOS collection views.– Rebuilding windows CE applications into cross platform mobile applications using Xamarin.Forms.Key Achievements– Led a team of 5 engineers to build mobile/desktop applications used by the Australian Football League (AFL):o InterchangeCapture-totrackplayerinterchangesduringlivematcheswithaudiencesof>60K people.o MatchDayManagement-managinglarge-scalelivegamestatisticsthrougharichUI.

South Melbourne, Victoria, Au

- Developed prediction model for analyzing sleep data and predicting current mental health state using TensorFlow.- Developed Garmin Fit watch application for reading heart rate and accelerometer data.- Led engineering initiatives for integrated Fitbit applications with Swift for heart rate sampling to developdata patterns for mental health.- Led engineering initiatives for Samsung Gear Integration with Bluetooth LE on android and iOS.- Integrated HxM2 Bluetooth LE devices using Kotlin and Swift.- Developed company standard mobile web service layer using OKHTTP for Android and iOS.- Architected many cross platform and native mobile applications with some requiring 1) Swift 2.3->3upgrade; 2) rebuilding C# applications to Kotlin; 3) refactor C# applications to resolve incorrect c-sharp threading and MVVM implementation.Key Achievements- Led a team of 3 engineers to build an Apple watch application using watchOS 3 for reading heart rate and accelerometer data to determine one’s mental health.

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

- Spearheaded design and implementation for a robust CQRS system facilitating real-time data replication, ensuring high availability and minimizing downtime.- Led engineering initiatives to integrate and encrypt health data between mobile applications over open- source framework FHIR - Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources.- Co-led new CX and widget designs for displaying encrypted health data through IntantPHR.- Led architectural design for SignalR host and client within CQRS and model/desktop applications.- Led initiatives for application profiling to monitor Bluetooth data using ADB (logcat) and XCodeInstruments.- Developed ASP applications and back-end hosting using Azure and microservices design for multiregion database.Key Achievements- Led architectural design for services handling hex and binary data received from different Bluetooth protocols across SPP and BTLE for Java and C#.- Built strategic initiatives for Telstra Health’s mobile business.- Led an engineering team of 5 for the release of their first ever public application ‘MyCareManager’ fortelehealth and patient monitoring. The app was also Australia’s first ever telehealth application for monitoring patients at home.

- Provided technical leadership and mentorship, guiding the team in designing and implementing mobile app full stack for both cross platform and native applications.- Engineered custom build servers for mobile/desktop application using bash scripting with xbuild (Android) and mdtool (IOS).- Developed mobile solution for Google D3 integration for displaying rich business analytics with customer animations.- Led architectural design for SignalR host and client within CQRS and model/desktop applications.- Engineered solutions for file and memory caching for iOS and Android.- Build iOS and android camera integration for streaming, taking pictures, configuring camera flash,compressing images into byte arrays and asynchronous uploads to server destinations.- Led initiatives for application profiling to monitor Bluetooth data using ADB (logcat) and XCodeInstruments.- Spearheaded memory management issues with android bitmaps and iOS images resulting in UXoptimization.- Developed memory management optimizations for ListViews and UITableViews.Key Achievements- Led engineering team to launch 2 cross platform mobile and desktop applications MyCrash for lodging crash reports directly to insurances companies, and iBodyshop for business analytics, document scanning, task management and job allocation, and car part orders.- Co-developed fast acting CX integration with Reactive Extensions in C#.

Denver, Colorado, Us

- Developed MVVM/MVC design pattern in C# for cross-platform mobile.- Co-led android and iOS updates.- Co-led initiatives for custom HTTP requests for encrypted byte arrays- Developed Appoxee Push Notifications and ComScore Tracking integration.- Led initiatives to upgrade objective-c targets to swift.Key Achievements- Co-led multiple app updates for consumer facing mobile app for RadioDI. DI.FM is the #1 online radio network for Electronic Music fans with over 3 million unique listeners monthly.

Mascot, Nsw, Au

- Developed java application for converting html5 to ffmpeg videos for android.- Led development for integration with Infragistics API and NuclIOS for drawing graphs inside mobileapplications.- Led engineering initiatives for integration with Chart.js API using Javascript and JQuery.- Co-developed WCF Services in Visual Studio for all web apps.- Published ASP.NET websites and SEP apps to Azure App Service.- Developed Token Authentication with WEB API 2.0, OAuth and OWIN.- Developed multiple release updates to internal SPA website using AngularJS.- Led engineering efforts to develop a company standard boostrap API and MVVM paradigm- Led initiatives for fast accessible online video storage using blobs and containers with Azure Blobstorage.- Engineered custom web views for handling HTML5 videos on android using Java.- Provided technical leadership and mentorship, guiding engineers and leadership on app releases withprovisioning profiles for debug, ad-hoc and releases and generating keystores for Android APK signing.- Collaborated with cross functional teams to build Microsoft Sharepoint servers and workflows viaInfoPath to access user profile data which was then used within API controllers to be access by mobile applications.Key Achievements- Led engineering team to launch company’s first public facing mobile app for live POS statistics within a venue using animated, interactive dashboards for banking, sales, discounts and more.- Led engineering team to launch internal learning application used by > 10 employees.- Custom built a reusable solution ‘hybrid web views’ for injecting C# functions to JavaScript APIs, toenable web graph APIs to be used on mobile app CX.

Led initiatives for conducting feasibility studies and gathering requirements from customers which was used as the final CX design for application.- Led support initiatives for direct customer support requiring on-site visitation monitoring app usage with children.- Developed Java application to encrypt audio files using AES128 and AES256.- Championed software quality improvement initiatives by conducting customer research and appprofiling, resulting in a 20% reduction app defects and ~1 reducing in download time for encrypted audio streams.Key Achievements- Led engineering team to launch ‘ListenToRead’, an iPad application for teaching kids how to read through the use of encrypted audio and PDFs.- Launched iPhone application to help reduce tinnitus for patients through encrypted audio streaming.

- Developed iOS application with rich CX for dynamic document design and PDF conversion.- Led engineering efforts for a build server with Testflight integration.Key Achievements- Launched public facing iOS application used by > 2K users.

Varennes, Quebec, Ca

- Full stack engineer building trading algorithms in C to execute trades based on human behavior through data.- Led initiatives for large scale data management using Apache Spark.- Developed trading patterns based on behaviors seen through historical data.- Developed ideas with ML to create smarter trading strategies.Key Achievements- Developed multiple trading algorithm in C to execute trades across 3yr & 10yr AU Bonds, 5yr & 10yr US Treasuries, S&P Index and Forex markets.- Developed trading patterns based certain human psychology through data.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

- Full stack engineer working on back and front end for Energy Australia’s monitoring platform.- Led testing initiatives for back and front-end, constructing test cases, developing automation andbuilding out a pipeline for engineer teams to make fixes.- Led initiatives for mock Java application to load test large amounts of XML messages to a Tibco ESBqueue.- Built Virtual Box environments for monitoring ESB queue XML messages and statistics.- Engineered updates to core application in C to change structure and variables used in XML messagessent to ESB queue.- Led testing strategy for 'PowerSense' devices imported from Nederlands which required developmentof C applications to test input/output of network packets via IPSKey Achievements- Co-developed and tested the launch of Energy Australia’s energy monitoring platform utilizing ‘PowerSense’ devices imported from Nederlands to read electricity from household green transformer boxes in public neighborhoods.

Bachelor Of Computer Science, Multimedia & Game Development / Software Develpment

Bachelor Of Music, Jazz, Theory And Composition

Bachelor Of Science, Theoretical And Mathematical Physics