Building intelligent systems at scale
Staff-level AI/ML Engineer with +9 years of experience building large-scale ML systems, agentic platforms, and production AI infrastructure. Co-author of 16 papers across NeurIPS, ICML, ACL, and Nature.
+9 yrs
Engineering Experience
200K+
Monthly Requests Handled
16
Research Publications
99.98%
System Reliability
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Career
Professional Experience
+9 years of experience building production ML systems, from early-stage startups to industry-defining platforms.
Depth by Domain
Technical Expertise
Agentic AI Platforms
At Contextual AI, I lead the Agent Composer team -- designing modular, graph-based agent frameworks that convert RAG pipelines into scalable, observable distributed systems.
Domain-Driven Design with composable agent workflows enabling scalable composition across research, sales, and applied teams.
Temporal-based orchestration improving evaluation success from 60% to 98% with 10x throughput scaling.
Distributed logging, tracing, and metrics reducing MTTR and enabling data-driven reliability engineering.
Research
Selected Publications
Best Paper Award (Co-author)
Recognized for outstanding contribution to the field of machine learning evaluation and data-centric AI systems.
Nature Publication
Forthcoming publication in Nature on AI systems and their applications in scientific research.
Adversarial Nibbler: A Data-Centric Challenge
Advancing fairness-aware and data-centric evaluation practices for modern machine learning systems.
BabyLM Challenge Proceedings
Sample-efficient language modeling and robust evaluation methodologies for language model training.
Data-Centric AI Workshop
Improving ML outcomes through data quality and process innovation in the data-centric AI ecosystem.
16 Publications Total
Spanning evaluation, NLP, computer vision, and AI systems across top-tier venues.
Toolkit