creating the general hillclimb machine
https://abundant.ai/
Founder
Scorecard
Jul 2023 - Jul 2024(1 year 1 month)
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Waymo
Mar 2021 - Jun 2023(2 years 4 months)
AI + Robotics. Data quality, evals, synthetic data, hilllclimbing. ML and optimization-based models for Planning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpiN3LyMLB8
Software Engineer
YouTube
Jun 2018 - Feb 2021(2 years 9 months)
- ML for T&S and recommendations
- solving for hate speech, misinfo, news using human ratings and model-based metrics
- deep retrieval (two-tower recommender) and classification for 2B users
https://blog.youtube/inside-youtube/on-youtubes-recommendation-system/
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/08/youtube-rabbit-holes-american-politics/675186/
Independent Contractor
Selfemployed
Sep 2016 - Mar 2018(1 year 7 months)
- full-stack work for startups incl. OpenGov (local government)
- enterprise AI (computer vision for F500)
- research in medical imaging lab
- side projects in ML
I
Independent Contractor
Sep 2016 - Mar 2018(1 year 7 months)
- full-stack work for startups incl. OpenGov (local government)
- enterprise AI (computer vision for F500)
- research in medical imaging lab
- side projects in ML
Venture Fellow
Pear VC
May 2016 - Oct 2016(6 months)
Accelerator program
Software Engineer
Facebook
May 2015 - Aug 2015(4 months)
Launched the Messenger Apple Watch app.
https://techcrunch.com/2015/09/09/facebook-messenger-apple-watch/
Software Engineering Intern
Upstart
Jan 2014 - Dec 2014(1 year)
- First intern at Upstart
Engineering Fellow
Kleiner Perkins
Jan 2014 - Aug 2014(8 months)
http://kpcbfellows.com/
Course Instructor
Duke University
Jan 2013 - Dec 2013(1 year)
Developed and taught a semester long course on App Development for 50 students
Teaching Assistant and section leader for CS201 Data Structures