Experience
AI Software Engineer at Precedent
- Spearheaded design and development of core features, including medical imaging extraction and concurrent processing without service degradation or excessive complexity.
- Improved engineering experience and system stability through automation, testing frameworks, and purpose-built operational utilities.
- Led a large-scale Python runtime migration and managed Terraform-based infrastructure and build architecture, ensuring compatibility, reliability, and early completion across multiple services.
AI Operations Engineer at Collins Aerospace
- Architected, designed, and continuously improved CI/CD pipelines and SDLC practices using GitHub Enterprise, Sonatype Nexus, Jenkins, and MLflow, accelerating and stabilizing deployments production services and hosted generative AI models.
- Optimized cloud resource utilization, achieving 15% monthly cost reduction (~$144K annually).
Software Engineering Intern at Collins Aerospace
- Led the creation of automated factory-floor reporting, delivering time savings and quality improvements that saved $100K over five years.
Projects
Production Reliability Enhancements
PagerDuty, Monitoring, Incident Management
- Modernized production monitoring by migrating to PagerDuty, accelerating alerting, eliminating missed incidents, and improving customer-perceived reliability.
- Built auto-clearing monitoring windows and authored on-call runbooks, reducing incident management overhead by 3 hours per day and significantly lowering operational burden.
- Implemented input splitting and recombination at scale, unlocking new billing opportunities and expanding supported data/document sizes.
Generative AI Deployment - Visible Thread Writer
AWS, CloudFormation, LLM Infrastructure
- Designed and automated infrastructure for deploying Large Language Models (LLMs) in customer environments using CloudFormation, ensuring scalability, security, and high availability.
- Enabled more than $1M/year in value by ensuring seamless deployment and operationalization of LLMs, directly benefiting internal applications.
Education
M.S. in Data Science University of Iowa
B.S.E. in Computer Science & Engineering with Minor in Statistics University of Iowa
Skills
Languages: Python, Bash, Go
Developer Tools: Docker, CI/CD, Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS, Linux
Soft Skills: Communication, Mentorship, Problem Solving