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Boston, Massachusetts, United States

First Machine Learning Engineering hire, building ML features end to end throughout the Tango product.- Lead Machine Learning Engineer building multiple fine-tuning, evaluation, and inference pipelines using proprietary data in AWS Sagemaker and Microsoft Azure ML- Responsible for drastically increasing workflow relevance in Search and Discovery, leveraging vector databases and other search ranking strategies- Developed production features and proofs of concept for Machine Learning features in the Tango product. Building backend services, web app features, and extension features.

Santa Monica, California, United States

*Acquired by BabbelTechnical Lead for two teams at Toucan:- Growth Engineering Team - Natural Language Processing, Translations, and LanguageFounding Engineer conceptualizing and building features that brought Toucan from 500 users to almost 1 Million Active Users.Lead Engineer for Toucan's greenfield technologies. Creating features that leverage OpenAI's GPT 3.5 (Davinci, ChatGPT), Hugging Face Transformers, and Spacy.Lead Engineer for Toucan's translation, progression, and practice features. Builder of features across our stack: Website, Browser Extension, and Backend. Our extension is supported across multiple browsers, the Chrome Extension on its own has over 400,000 Users.Responsible for leading systems design, requirements creation, providing technical guidance, and implementation of full-stack software solutions focused on Growth and NLP/ML projects.Individual Contributor and Leader shipping features using the following technologies: Typescript, Node, React, GraphQL, MondoDb, Browser Extension, HuggingFace, Spacy, AWSHighlights:- Contributor to the Frontend and Lead Engineer for the backend of Toucan's Chrome extension translation system which serves 30 million+ Translations a day in 147 Language vectors- Lead Engineer for Toucan's NLP and Machine Translation services including Toucan's Dictionary, Expanded Phrases Feature, Highlight to Translate- Lead Engineer for the Toucan Shortcuts Feature- Crafter of numerous minimum viable products, prototypes, and proofs of concept to aid in realizing Toucan's vision. Many leveraging Machine Learning models, and some brought to full scale.

Santa Monica, California, United States

Senior Engineer building the future of language acquisition. Our translation system handles over 35 million daily translations in 147 language pairs. Lead engineer for developing our translation and progression systems.Builder of production-level Natural Language Processing(NLP) pipelines and Machine Translation(MT) Model Inference services using AWS Sagemaker, PyTorch, HuggingFace, and SpaCy.Works daily with product stakeholders to see features through from conception to implementation.Designs and implements GraphQL APIs, creates integration tests, and performs code reviews.

Santa Monica, Ca

Founding Fullstack Senior Software Engineer with a focus on Natural Language Processing, Machine Translation, and implementing Machine Learning.Lead engineer for the newest version of the Toucan translation algorithm (Released July 2020). Responsible for a 10x increase in translation density by implementing architectural and engineering improvements through the entire stack. Increased translations events from 40-80k/day to 1-2million/day, with a peak of 4.3million translations/day.Researches, plans, architects, and builds features on the full stack Toucan Browser Extension application. > Engineers solutions to leverage Natural Language Processing in creating accurate machine translations > Developed React components for frontend consumer site > Developed Airtable CMS content management system. A low code solution tying in with our MongoDB > Node, Express, Apollo GraphQL, MongoDB backend service > Serverless Lambda Functions in Node > React Chrome Extension

West Los Angeles, California

Senior Software Engineer in an Agile product environment. (Ruby on Rails, REST API, GraphQL, MongoDB, Postgres)- Architect and Developer for Ruby on Rails GraphQL API for the SketchyU product- Develops and contributes to the backend RESTful service built in Ruby on Rails for SketchyMedical.com and SketchyNursing.com core subscription learning products. - Develops Behavior Driven integration and unit tests for Sketchy's core product backend.- Works with stakeholders to create epics, user stories, and product requirements for the SketchyUniversity productSketchy's interactive web and mobile apps serve content that harnesses the power of visual learning to help over 40,000 students in the medical field ace the wards, medicine shelf, and USMLE Step 2.

Playa Vista, California

Software Engineer in an Agile product environment.Develops features for AppBuilder, an application that automates mobile application building, management, and deployment of ChowNow's 15,000 white label restaurant mobile apps. Lead developer for new features that support distributed account mobile app deployments of ChowNow's white label apps for restaurant clients.Stack: Python - Flask, PHP - Yii, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Fastlane(Ruby)

Playa Vista, California

Software Engineer with a focus in Product DeliveryDesigns, develops, and maintains applications that optimize processes, delivery, and integrations at ChowNow.Projects/Products:SHERLOCK - Client Website and Integration Health Tracking Application- Tracks/Crawls 7k client websites for issues that impact performance on the ChowNow platform. Issues like removal of ChowNow integration, site accessibility, ssl expiration, competitors.- Leverages the SalesForce API to create client outreach cases.- Potentially saved tens of thousands of dollars in lost revenue- Designed and developed Python - Flask REST API and application's main functionalityContributed to React FrontEndStack: Python - Flask, Redis(RQ), React, PostgreSQL Tools and Libraries: SQLAlchemy, Beautiful Soup, Heroku, Auth0, SalesForce REST APIAppBuilder - Automated Mobile App Building Tool (Over 6k apps in iTunes and Google Play Store)- Developed features in Python that were vital to the success of a new product sold by ChowNow- Designed and developed features that optimized building and maintaining the 6k apps in the appstore on multiple developer accountsStack: PHP - Yii Framework, Python, Ruby (Fastlane), JavaScript, HTML, MySQLChownowStore.com - Marketing Assets E-commerce SolutionDeveloperStack: WordPress (PHP), JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Tools: SalesForce APISupport.ChowNow.ComStack: SalesForce Lightning, HTML, CSSDeveloped current and past projects using: Python (Flask Framework), React, PHP (Yii and Wordpress), JavaScript, HTML, CSS, PostgreSQL, Redis, Heroku, SalesForce API

Playa Vista California

Multiple subject specialist in all things web development at a lightning fast-paced startup! Providing engineering skills and web support to the restaurant success team. 900+ Websites Integrated with ChowNow at the end of January 2017. Responsible for integrating ChownNow's main product onto existing client websites. Requiring proficiency in internet development languages (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP), dozens of content management systems, website builders, and web development frameworks including:Word Press, Joomla, Square Space, GoDaddy Site Builder, Drupal, Angular, Weebly, WixRequired to be the subject specialist on web technologies and web development including DNS, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Version Control(Git Hub & Bit Bucket), and Web Hosting.Client Facing:Solves Customer Service escalations regarding web development and integration. 140 Web related Cases solved at the end of January 2017.Developed Tatango text to Download Applet:Developed a prototype applet for future integrations, giving Restaurant's customers the ability to enter their own phone number to receive a text with a download link of the Restaurant's Mobile App.(Tatango API, HTML, CSS, Javascript, AJAX, and a Python Flask endpoint deployed on Amazon web services EC2)Transformed the integration process to a coded and high-performance process. Developed integration and SEO tool.Developed Marketing Materials E-commerce store.App DeploymentDeployed Hundreds of Mobile applications to the Apple app store and Google play store.

Salinas, California

Monterey County Office of Education K-12 STEM Coder Dojo Program - Lead instructor and educator for students age 6-18 focused on computer science and programming concepts- Design curriculum for the entire program on both beginner and advanced levels- Instructed students on coding concepts using: Scratch, Python, HTML, CSS, Javascript,PHP, Java, and Raspberry Pi hardware- Conceptualized and instructed the Black Belt program for advanced young aspiringcoders, mentoring the development of community suggested applications.-An example of a mentored project: whackagopher.tk github.com/micsarmi01/whacaGopher

Monterey California

Management and operations of the Technology Rental Store, a self sustaining project that provides low cost high technology rentals to students.Michael Developed the new web based application used as the Check-out and inventory system for the Technology Rental Store. Designing and developing the check-out system provided a smoother transaction system for both the administrator and customer. The newly developed application provided many features over the previously used system including accurate data collection, inventory, and status of each order. Project Management - Training, Documentation, Logistics, Marketing and Graphic DesignInformation Technology support and troubleshooting in the ITCollaborative project, providing IT services and solutions to Non-Profit organizations.

Bachelor Of Computer Science, Software Engineering

Activities and Societies: ACM (Association of Computing Machinery), National Collegiate Disc Golf Team, CSUMB Startup Hackathon Winner

Associate'S Transfer, Computer Science