Experience
  • Musabay Technologies
    Python Developer Instructor
    Remote
    03/2023 - Present

    Developed and taught curriculum for a backend developer course covering Python, PostgreSQL, Django, Flask, AWS, DevOps, Alembic, and SQLAlchemy.

  • Senior Software Engineer - Tech Lead
    Los Angeles, CA - Remote
    09/2021 - Present

    Experienced tech lead with a track record of successfully leading cross-functional teams in developing and delivering innovative software solutions. Expertise in Python, Flask, AWS, Scrum, and PostgreSQL. Proven ability to drive project success, facilitate collaboration, and deliver ahead of schedule. Strong skills in team leadership, technical problem-solving, and agile project management. Successfully onboarded new team members and provided technical oversight for production systems.

  • Cofounder / Software Engineer
    Los Angeles, CA
    04/2020 - 07/2021

    Architected, implemented and deployed an MVP Django/PostgreSQL platform that optimized home garden environments with machine learning. Integrated with hardware devices that collected data from I2C sensors in a multi-threaded Python system. Performed analysis in procurement, market research, and competitors.

  • Software Engineer / Founder
    Los Angeles, CA
    06/2019 - 03/2020

    Architected and developed a web store with Django/PostgreSQL that allowed 3rd Parties to offer ML services and upload ML models/datasets. Users could then shop and review these product offerings.

  • Staff Software Engineer
    Shelton, CT
    01/2018 - 01/2019

    Lead developer/architect for infrastructure in an ML image classification system that identified targets from the air and reported to the ground in real-time. Deployed using NVIDIA TX2 for edge computing capability. System features included: live model swapping, real-time inference and results querying during flight mission. Managed remote SW team for frontend development. Developed an enterprise image labeling application that facilitated remote labeling activities as part of an ML Ops Data Pipeline effort.

  • Senior Software Engineer
    Palmdale, CA
    10/2017 - 01/2018

    Lead developer for retrofitting a high fidelity simulated environment, AFSIM, with reinforcement learning support. Custom AFSIM C++ plugin enabled language agnostic RL libraries to observe, execute actions, and clock control for faster than real-time training of a pilot agent. Extended the RL library BURLAP to control an AFSIM pilot by defining agent, world and action attributes. Managed 2 SW engineers in support of the AFSIM effort.

  • Software Engineer
    Palmdale, CA
    03/2016 - 10/2017

    Contributed in design and development for multiple prototypes. The most notable effort focused on cognitive electronic warfare. System classified known radar emitters with machine learning. Awarded with Special Recognition for efforts in ensuring a very successful demo. Introduced and assimilated AI Research team members with software development standards and tools such as: OOP with Python, Docker, and Git. Tasked and mentored 3 SW engineers.

  • Associate Software Engineer / ELDP
    Manassas, VA
    01/2015 - 02/2016

    Accepted into the highly selective Engineering Leadership Development Program. Contributed to full stack design, development and testing of a web-based project.

Projects

  • 2021 - 2021
    Who Goes There

    An open source security camera classification system to extract classified objects from images with machine learning. If you're interested in finding out who is consistently destroying your garden, ask Who Goes There for insight.

  • 2020 - Present
    Portfolio Blog

    Portfolio Blog is a django project that allows anyone to publish their resume through a simple to use administration panel and that can be hosted on their own servers. It currently allows you to display your projects, experience, skills, education, and courses. It also has a basic blog functionality built into it to allow your site to have any relevant posts you may want to share.

  • 2019 - 2019
    Fit For Work

    Provided analysis of data collections operation and provided areas of improvement as well as possible predictive insight which would seek to reduce disability incidents through preventative care. Report gave a baseline for how machine learning performs with their current structured data as well as areas to improve in their data collection activities.

  • 2014 - 2014
    Collaborative Platform: Mentor Module

    Developed the admin management tools that allows control of data and views that give insight on usage at a detailed/system wide level through database queries. Developed the Accept/Reject System of roles between admin and new incoming mentor applications. Tools Used: Yii Framework (MVC), PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, XAMPP

  • 2014 - 2014
    Android OS Kernel Development on Nexus 7 Tablet

    Created producer/consumer threads to identify and kill all non-prioritized, high memory usage processes until memory was no longer below defined threshold. Written in C. Also required the ability to define an upper bound on memory/CPU usage on a per-process basis through a user-space program and kill processes when it exceeded the defined limit through a kernel module. Second Phase of project required creating a new round-robin style IO scheduler for the block device.

  • 2014 - 2014
    PantherLot System

    Java Project used for testing that was designed to handle garage parking. Created Test cases for Unit and Subsytem Testing using equivalence partitioning and boundary-value analysis. Used JUnit 4 to run test cases. Jacoco and Cobertura for test coverage. Mockito to mock/stub classes.

  • 2014 - 2014
    Music Management System

    Development life cycle was managed using principles of software project management. Created Software Project Plan and estimated schedule using Use Case Point Analysis Method. Identified risks and solutions to maintain on schedule and in budget.

  • 2013 - 2013
    What's the Dish

    What's the Dish is a social media application for the Android platform that cuts through all the noise and just focuses on what food enthusiasts want to see: Food. The users can be 'regular users', which includes Facebook users, Publishers, which include Restaurant owners and chefs, and Guests. Facebook users will be able to post their favorite foods or recipes and their friends can comment or rate those postings. Publishers can only posts their plates or recipes but won't be able to interact with other postings other than their own.

Education

  • 2010 - 2014
    ... Florida International University

    Bachelors of Science in Computer Science

  • 2005 - 2009
    ... Miami Dade College

    Associate of Arts in Accounting

Courses

  • 2019

    ... Coursera

    Machine Learning with TensorFlow on Google Cloud Platform Specialization

    Use the Keras Sequential and Functional APIs for simple and advanced model creation; Design and build a TensorFlow 2.x input data pipeline; Use the tf.data library to manipulate data and large datasets; Train, deploy, and productionalize ML models at scale with Cloud AI Platform.