Experience

GAMMA Lab — The University of Texas at Austin
M.S. Thesis Researcher | January 2026 – Present
PyTorch, Hugging Face Transformers, PEFT/LoRA, SFT/RFT, Model Evaluation
M.S. thesis research on inspectable language-model control and evaluation for simulated X-ray peak centering. Selected for a first-author poster and lightning talk at TACCSTER 2026.

Dell Medical School — The University of Texas at Austin
Research Engineer, Part-time | January 2026 – Present
BigQuery, SQL, OMOP CDM, Healthcare Analytics
Wrote source-to-OMOP mapping code using string and similarity matching; translated pediatric emergency-care specifications into BigQuery SQL/OMOP analytical logic.

BMO Capital Markets
Artificial Intelligence Engineer, Contract | September 2025 – April 2026
Python, RAG, LangGraph, Langfuse
Built and demonstrated a data-governance proof of concept for profiling, classification, SQL translation, and data quality using RAG, LangGraph, and Langfuse.

Xanthus Security
Software Engineering Consultant | June 2025 – August 2025
Python, AWS Bedrock, OpenAI API, RAG, OSINT
Built an LLM-powered OSINT and security-reporting platform for external clients.

Spectral Tech AI
Machine Learning Engineer, Contract | July 2024 – May 2025
PyTorch, PyTorch Lightning, Azure ML, Computer Vision, NVIDIA Jetson
Worked on computer-vision training and inference workflows, edge ML deployment, and production observability across 500+ NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano devices.

CIBC
Senior Software Engineer, Contract | November 2024 – April 2025
LLMs, RAG, RAGAS, FastAPI, Azure OpenAI
Contributed enterprise LLM/RAG features; designed and built a RAGAS faithfulness-evaluation harness and separate API-latency tests. Also built an Azure OpenAI/Azure AI Speech meeting-agent proof of concept.

Royal Bank of Canada
Senior Software Engineer | May 2023 – May 2024
Azure, AWS, GCP, Cloud Infrastructure
Built multi-cloud compliance automation, policy controls, and operational tooling supporting U.S. banking systems.

Just Web Agency
Software Engineer | August 2021 – February 2023
Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, React, TypeScript
Built backend services, scraping and lead-ingestion systems, and client-facing B2B dashboards.

Earlier Experience

Previous software engineering and internship experience includes FINTRAC, Cisco, Microsoft/Nuance Communications, Coveo, and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, spanning backend services, data systems, cloud infrastructure, developer tooling, and NLP-related software.

I also served as a Teaching Assistant at Carleton University for Data Structures & Algorithms and Discrete Mathematics.

Contact Me

I'm interested in U.S. full-time opportunities starting in early 2027 in Machine Learning Engineering, ML Systems, ML Platform/MLOps, Model Evaluation, Model Serving/Inference, and Applied ML . I'm available now for recruiter conversations and open to relocation for the right role. I'm particularly interested in scientific and physical-world applications of machine learning. Please feel free to reach out! 😊