Self-motivated and tenacious software engineer/architect and data scientist with over seventeen years of experience across professional and academic work environments. Currently working as the technical lead for NV-Ingest, a service used for data extraction, transformation, and processing, targeting large-scale RAG applications.Able to function in both team and individual contributor roles. Comfortable with directing and mentoring other engineers and willing to take on architecture and leadership roles.Strong communication skills, with the ability to discuss software, products, and requirements at a customer, business, or engineering level, and translate between each.Professional background in computer science and engineering, computational science, and data science, with an academic background in various areas of applied mathematics, including numerical methods, linear algebra, and finite field arithmetic. Able to come up to speed on most topics in a reasonable amount of time.Primary Development Languages: C/C++, Python (+pybind11), Bash, some CUDA (comfortable learning and working in any programming language, as necessary).