New York City Metropolitan Area
RL for agentic coding, tool use & VLAs
Reimagined personalized education with a small team led by Meta’s former VP of AI & funding from Owl, 8VC. Contributed across the stack — ML, mobile, analytics — to rapidly prototype and ship while scaling a consumer app from 0 → 100k+ WAU in first couple months Finetuned OSS models, designed data pipelines, built an A/B testing framework and shipped an LLM-based content generation & recommendation engine
[worked during leave of absence] Reported to the CTO as engineer #9, while headcount grew 20x and revenue 200x Spearheaded early trust & safety engineering efforts by deploying content moderation & fraud detection algorithms
[worked during leave of absence] Explored the limits of immersion & productivity via virtual reality software. Revamped the content upload system & cloud storage integrations (Google Drive, Slack, Miro, etc) to enable users to interact with their files in a collaborative 3D environment Bridged AI and VR by prototyping with early private beta GPT-3 access
∙ Built a revenue data dashboard and API for Snap Partners ∙ Prototyped a computer vision algorithm for automatic ad insertion in Snapchat Discover