02 // CAREER & CREDENTIALS/PRODUCTION VERIFIED
Available for AI/ML Engineering roles

Experience & Credentials

AI Engineer specializing in frontier LLM evaluation, golden benchmark datasets, and production ML pipelines.

Frontier AI

300+

Tuning Strategies (~95% Acc)

Verizon Eng

#1 / 15

1st Place Innovation Award

UCSD Honors

3.76

B.S. Cognitive Science (ML)

Credentials

3

Industry Certifications

Career & Academic Trajectory

Work Experience & Education

3 Verified Milestones

AI Engineer

Handshake AI•Remote
NVIDIA Nemotron-12B CollaboratorOct 2025 – Present
  • ›Built golden ground-truth datasets standardizing evaluation baselines across frontier LLMs (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude).
  • ›Collaborated with NVIDIA on Nemotron-12B evaluation, improving domain reasoning via structured benchmarks.
  • ›Engineered 300+ context-design strategies resolving hallucinations and drift with ~95% accuracy.
Stack:Frontier LLMsNVIDIA Nemotron-12BGolden DatasetsInstruction TuningRLHFHallucination MitigationEvaluation Pipelines
~95% Strategy Accuracy

Project Engineer

Verizon•San Jose, CA
1st Place Innovation AwardJul 2021 – Aug 2021
  • ›Co-designed ML solutions for environmental water pollution detection in a 5-member engineering team.
  • ›Built real-time OpenCV computer vision pipeline for automated pollutant extraction.
  • ›Awarded 1st place among 15 teams for innovation and engineering impact.
Stack:Computer VisionOpenCVMachine LearningEnvironmental MLCross-Functional LeadershipReal-Time Detection
Ranked #1 of 15 Teams

B.S. in Cognitive Science (Machine Learning & Neural Computation)

University of California, San Diego (UCSD)•La Jolla, CA
Minor in Data ScienceSept 2023 – Sept 2025
  • ›B.S. specialization in Machine Learning, Neural Computation, and Applied Data Science (GPA 3.76).
  • ›Leadership in Data Science Student Society (DS3) and CSSA Web Team.
Stack:Machine LearningNeural ComputationData SciencePythonC++Linear AlgebraStatistical Modeling
GPA: 3.76
Verified Credentials & Specializations

Industry Certifications & Accreditations

3 Verified Industry Credentials
Verified

AI Engineer for Data Scientists Associate

Data Science & MLOps Certification

  • ›Full AI lifecycle: data prep, PyTorch/scikit-learn modeling, MLOps, and pytest testing.
SQLPyTorchscikit-learnMLOpsGitPythonPytest
Verified

Model Context Protocol: Advanced Topics

Anthropic / AI Systems Infrastructure

  • ›Advanced MCP server architectures, transport protocols (Stdio/SSE/HTTP), FastMCP, and secure tool execution.
SamplingRootsJSONStdio/SSE/StreamableHTTP TransportsFastMCPSecurity
Verified

Google IT Automation with Python Specialization

Google Career Certificates (7-Course Program)

  • ›7-course certification in Python scripting, Linux/Bash automation, Git workflows, and system administration.
PythonGit/GitHubPuppetIaaSOOPAPISSHregexBash/Linux
Technical Stack & Tools

Grounded Technical Stack

Core technologies and engineering practices across Work, Education, and Certifications.

01 // Work & Industry

Production AI & Engineering

Handshake AI & Verizon

Core Tools & Languages
PythonFastAPINVIDIA Nemotron-12BOpenCVDockerLinux / BashGoogle Cloud PlatformGit & GitHubAsyncio
Applied Focus Areas
  • ›Frontier LLM Evaluation
  • ›Golden Benchmark Datasets
  • ›Instruction Tuning
  • ›RLHF Optimization
  • ›Real-Time Computer Vision
Production Verified
02 // Academic Foundation

ML Theory & Scientific Computing

UC San Diego (GPA 3.76)

Core Tools & Languages
PyTorchTensorFlowscikit-learnNumPyPandasMatplotlibC++JavaSQL
Applied Focus Areas
  • ›Machine Learning Algorithms
  • ›Neural Computation & Networks
  • ›Deep Learning Pipelines
  • ›Data Structures & Algorithms
  • ›Statistical Modeling & Regression
  • ›Linear Algebra
B.S. Cognitive Science ML
03 // Industry Accreditations

Protocols, MLOps & Systems

IBM, Anthropic & Google

Core Tools & Languages
Model Context Protocol (MCP)FastMCP SDKPyTorchPostgreSQLPytestPuppetBash AutomationRegex
Applied Focus Areas
  • ›MLOps Pipelines
  • ›Stdio / SSE / HTTP Transports
  • ›Security Guardrails & Sampling
  • ›System Administration & SSH
  • ›Unit & Integration Testing
3 Industry Accreditations