Gateways that route each call to the cheapest model that can handle it, guardrails that catch PII before it leaves the building, and the evals that prove both actually work.
- Now: Lead Machine Learning Engineer at Blocsmith, the team behind MoatDrop, a PII/PHI redaction platform. I own the document-extraction and Q&A engine on Gemini and Claude: context caching, redaction, RAG evaluation, and an MCP server for Claude Desktop, Cursor and Claude Code.
- Before: ML engineering at AventuSoft and Haus Llama, and data engineering at Accenture and Infosys on Azure, Databricks and Spark.
- Education: MS in Data Science, Florida Atlantic University (3.95 GPA). Second author of an NSF-funded paper in IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems.
- Lately: won ITCHATHON in San Francisco with AdPilot, an AI ad assistant for independent wealth managers, and shipped AgentShield in a day at the SF Tech Week hackathon.
| Project | What it is | Proof |
|---|---|---|
| Conduit | Proxy-first AI gateway. Every model call goes through one OpenAI-compatible API; a two-stage complexity router escalates only the ambiguous cases. | 50.8% lower cost vs all-Opus routing · 88.6% router tier agreement · 0% injection false positives |
| AgentShield | PII guardrail for agent-to-agent traffic that writes its own rules: regex + Presidio inline, an LLM auditor offline, new rules gated on precision/recall before they hot-load. | Built in one day · 53 tests · demo video |
| StudyForge | Open-source, self-hosted adaptive learning platform. Turns a PDF, link or YouTube video into a course with quizzes and FSRS spaced repetition. | 800+ backend tests · runs on Claude or local models |
| Rival Radar | Competitive intelligence for B2B SaaS. A LangGraph + Claude pipeline that turns competitor site changes into a weekly Slack brief. | Live demo · CI/CD to Cloud Run · brief in ~60s |
| tiny-physics | Master's thesis. LoRA and instruction tuning of SmolLM2 for on-device physics QA, shipped as quantized GGUF. | +30% on MMLU College Physics · 6,000+ synthetic QA pairs |
Unpacking Generative AI in Education. IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, second author. NSF-funded study of how students and teachers talk about GenAI across ~15,000 posts and articles. Paper · Data pipeline
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