AI/Software Engineering

Building AI systems that solve real-world problems

Mission-driven AI engineer with roots in public policy and psychology. I design and ship serverless, multilingual products that combine LLMs, cloud infrastructure, and thoughtful design to create accessible solutions for users.

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Building AI-powered solutions that make a difference

Shipping end-to-end systems that combine LLMs, cloud infrastructure, and thoughtful design to solve complex problems across diverse domains.

SMS job posting platform

Job listings live in under five minutes

Built an SMS-based platform that enables small business owners to text job details and publish instantly with AI processing.

  • Reduced job posting time from hours to under 5 minutes through conversational AI that guides users step-by-step.
  • Built automated content moderation and validation system that reduced manual review workload by 40%.
  • Stack: Python, AWS Lambda, Redis, SQS, EC2, MongoDB, Twilio, TypeScript, Azure OpenAI.
Call Based - Multilingual resume generator

Guided resumes for every job seeker

Created an AI assistant for workers with limited professional guidance to craft resumes in their own language.

  • Reduced average resume creation time by 70% across English, Korean, Chinese, Spanish, and Russian.
  • Implemented load balancing and auto-scaling with Route 53 for high availability and US-wide distribution.
  • Stack: Python, AWS Lambda, Redis, SQS, EC2, MongoDB, Twilio, TypeScript, Azure OpenAI.
Job intelligence pipeline

Surface hard-to-find opportunities

Engineered a resilient scraping and enrichment workflow to keep job boards fresh and relevant.

  • Processed 10,000+ postings with over 90% parsing accuracy using LLM-based extraction.
  • Reduced scraping time by 80% using multi-threaded processing and async I/O operations to extract information.
  • Stack: Python, Selenium, Azure OpenAI.
Recommendation system

AI-powered candidate matching

Developing an AI-driven chatbot that connect candidates with the best opportunities.

  • Implementing a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system with vector embeddings for candidate-job matching.
  • Building a chatbot using LangChain and large language models (LLMs) for personalized, conversational recommendations.
  • Stack: Python, LangChain, Azure OpenAI, vector-embeddings.

Personal Work

Exploring AI, machine learning, and data science through hands-on projects.

U-NET: Water Meter Reader

U-Net segmentation model detecting water meter number regions
  • Built and trained a U-Net segmentation model to automatically detect and localize water meter number regions in images.

Convolutional Neural Network: Dog Breed Classifier

CNN architecture diagram showing multi-stream data processing
  • Built a CNN to classify dog breeds across 133 classes, achieving 89% accuracy through optimization techniques.

Neural Network: Text Message Filter

Neural network architecture diagram showing interconnected nodes and connections
  • Built a spam detection neural network achieving 98% accuracy, manually implementing forward and backpropagation from scratch without external packages.

Experience snapshot

Bringing together policy insight, human-centered research, and engineering to build technology that creates meaningful impact.

Aug 2024 - Present

AI Engineer, WorkOnward (Remote)

Lead development of AI-powered hiring tools, owning architecture, delivery, and stakeholder alignment across product, design, and operations.

Jan 2022 - Jun 2023

Software Engineer Apprentice, 100Devs (Remote)

Shipped client-ready full-stack features, collaborated on agile squads, and practiced code reviews, sprint planning, and developer tooling.

Jun 2019 - Aug 2019

Research Assistant, California Center for Population Research

Supported immigrant health research with data cleaning, statistical analysis in R and SQL, and publication-ready reporting.

Education

UCLA MPP & Purdue BS Psychology

Master of Public Policy with University Fellowship Award and Franklin D. Gilliam, Jr. Social Justice Award; undergraduate honors student with study abroad in Berlin.

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