currently passionate about how llms are changing life for everyday people outside the sf/x bubble

mostly a generalist, i just love solving problems!

Publications

Experience

tldr
  • ~5 years of industry experience (including co-ops)
  • now an ML engineer at meta, working on LLMs and recommender systems
  • background in distributed systems, backend infra, and ML infra
  • languages: python, go, typescript, javascript, ruby, SQL
  • infra: kubernetes, AWS, GCP, linux, docker
  • worked across big tech, startups, fintech, healthtech, and research
  • feb 2026 – present software engineer @ meta
    • working on notifications ranking for facebook and post-training LLMs for content understanding, building toward the next generation of LLM-based recommenders
  • aug 2025 – dec 2025 graduate researcher @ gatech
    • researched AI agent memory and built MemoBankRL, a memory optimization framework
  • mar 2025 – aug 2025 founding software engineer @ controlcore.io
    • built AI-native access control for kubernetes in golang
  • oct 2024 – feb 2025 senior full‑stack developer @ atb financial
    • 0 → 1 new product engineering, working on the whole stack
    • developed some product sense
  • oct 2023 – sep 2024 software developer @ symcor
    • led the org-wide migration from svn + capistrano to git + ansible
    • got really good at python, linux, and distributed systems

Co-ops

  • jan 2023 – apr 2023 software developer intern @ uottawa
    • launched MFA reset tool to 50,000+ users
  • may 2022 – aug 2022 software developer co‑op @ emids
    • built a telehealth app with react and typescript
  • may 2021 – dec 2021 unix system engineer co‑op @ canadian bank note
    • built a TLS certificate management API with python and flask
  • sep 2020 – apr 2021 software engineering intern @ uottawa
    • built e-learning modules for the faculty of medicine with react

Education

  • jan 2025 – dec 2025 masters in computer science @ gatech
    • completed 3 courses with a 4.0 GPA
    • on a leave of absence
  • sep 2018 – apr 2023 bachelors in computer science @ uottawa
    • president of the uottawa google developer student club '22
    • minor in psychology