Software Engineer II · Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2026 – present
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Building an LLM-based autonomous institutional-knowledge agent that recovers knowledge
lost to employee churn and turnover. It crawls internal infrastructure, pipelines,
ETLs, code bases, and documentation systems (wiki, Quip, SharePoint) and aggregates
them into a curated, continuously maintained knowledge base.
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Designed the self-healing curation system: event- and schedule-driven automation
prunes, cleans, merges, and expands the knowledge base as new events arrive, with a
"curator" filtering inputs and several learning systems maintaining accuracy.
System Development Engineer II · Amazon Web Services (AWS), Seattle, WA
Oct 2022 – Feb 2026
- Built infrastructure and systems for supply-chain planning.
- Worked across application security and large-scale distributed systems.
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In the role's final year, initiated the LLM-based institutional-knowledge agent
described above — now continuing in the current role.
Systems Engineer · Raytheon Missiles & Defense, Tucson, AZ
Sep 2018 – Oct 2022
Lead engineer across AI/ML efforts: object detection and classification in SAR and IR
imagery, edge-processor development and integration (NVIDIA Tegra), reinforcement learning
for large-scale swarm autonomy, and learning-to-optimize for combinatorial problems in
distributed systems. Instructor for Raytheon's Advanced Technical Education Program
(reinforcement learning).
Research Assistant · Dr. Peter Cheeseman, Berkeley, CA
2015 – 2017
Teaching Assistant · University of California, Berkeley
2016