Progressed through multiple AWS AI/ML teams. Promoted to SDE II in April 2025.
Aug 2025 – Present
M.S. in Information Studies (MSIS) · Part-time
Trine University · GPA: 4.0/4.0
Pursuing a Master of Science in Information Studies part-time alongside full-time MLE work. Focus on data systems, information architecture, and applied research.
May 2025 – Present
MLE · Custom Model Optimization (CMO)
AWS Generative AI Innovation Center
Leading R&D in model customization — SFT, Reinforcement Learning (GRPO, DPO), and model steering. Focus on robustness, explainability, and cost-effectiveness for enterprise LLM deployments.
Aug 2024 – May 2025
SDE → SDE II · Bedrock Model Customization
AWS
Led development of Supervised Fine-Tuning for LLMs as a managed service in Amazon Bedrock. Built the end-to-end pipeline for customers to customize foundation models on their own data.
Apr 2024 – Aug 2024
SDE · SageMaker AutoPilot & Canvas
AWS
AutoML for tabular data, time-series forecasting, and language model fine-tuning. Helped make ML accessible to non-practitioners through Canvas's no-code interface.
Feb 2023 – Apr 2024
SDE · Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK)
AWS
Kafka on AWS Graviton chips and MSK Express Brokers with a fully managed storage layer. Optimized performance and cost for real-time streaming workloads at scale.