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I’m an AI engineer specializing in agentic LLM systems, human-centered AI, and optimization. I have 10+ years of experience working on production web application systems.
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<aside> <img src="/icons/briefcase_blue.svg" alt="/icons/briefcase_blue.svg" width="40px" /> Workplaces Bongard.ai, Mindora.ai, Stanford University, National Research Council of Canada, Hylo, Cogniva, Castlight Health
Education: B.Sc. Computer Science with a focus in Computational Neuroscience, Dalhousie University, 2007
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<aside> <img src="/icons/computer_blue.svg" alt="/icons/computer_blue.svg" width="40px" /> Published Work The AWS Bedrock Tutorial I Wish I Had: Everything You Need to Know to Prepare Your Machine for AWS Infrastructure, Towards Data Science, Oct 2024
Batched K-Means with Python Numba and CUDA C, Towards Data Science, Nov 27, 2023
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<aside> <img src="/icons/token_blue.svg" alt="/icons/token_blue.svg" width="40px" /> Notable Achievements Parallelized a custom K-means variant for GPU, cutting processing from 1 day to 1 minute (1500x+ speedup) using Python, NumPy, Numba, and CUDA/C.
I came up with six novel top-performing solutions within my first 100 questions on Leetcode, including a top 10% runtime and memory solution for a Leetcode Hard.
2024 AI Conference Hack Day HackrChallenge Winner [LinkedIn Announcement]
Founded and acted as the first Chair for Dalhousie University’s Women in Technology Society (WiTS), which still exists today to support female-identifying students pursing technical degrees.
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<aside> <img src="/icons/document_blue.svg" alt="/icons/document_blue.svg" width="40px" /> Resume AI Engineering Resume Front-end Engineering Resume
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Speeding up Parallelized Algorithms
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Projects
Mindora | An AI-Powered ADHD Diagnosis Platform
Hylo | UX for a Collaborative Community Platform
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<aside> <img src="/icons/microscope_blue.svg" alt="/icons/microscope_blue.svg" width="40px" /> Experiments A couple of fun UX experiments that bring together an understanding of internal LLM / Transformer dynamics with creative exploration of novel UX paradigms.
Experimental UX Approaches for LLM’s
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<img src="/icons/verified_blue.svg" alt="/icons/verified_blue.svg" width="40px" /> Skills
Python, C
React, Next.js, Javascript
AWS, GCP
PyTorch, NumPy, RAG, SageMaker, LangChain, LangSmith
Numba, CUDA C, Custom GPU kernels
PyTorch Geometric, NetworkX, LangGraph
Figma, Sketch, UI / UX & Product Management
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<aside> <img src="/icons/geography_blue.svg" alt="/icons/geography_blue.svg" width="40px" /> Born in: Halifax, Nova Scotia
Places Lived: Halifax (Nova Scotia), Ottawa (Ontario), San Francisco Bay Area (California), Santa Cruz (California), Haiku (Maui, Hawaii), Victoria (British Columbia)
Citizenship: Canada-US dual citizen Location: SF Bay Area & Nevada City, California
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