About
Applied AI Engineer at Pioneer Circuits, building document-understanding and retrieval systems end to end — problem framing through production. Based in Los Angeles, CA.
Experience
Applied AI Engineer
January 2026 — Present
Pioneer Circuits · Santa Ana, CA
- Led the full AI solution lifecycle as sole engineer — problem framing through production deployment — setting team-wide design patterns and mentoring interns, for a document-understanding and vector-retrieval system that captured tribal knowledge and cut contract-review overhead 16x, from 1 to 16 reviews a day.
- Built automated pipelines that summarise KPIs and surface actionable insights for executives, turning 50+ documents a day into decision-ready reporting.
- Built a predictive scheduling model estimating job duration to optimise queue sequencing, tracking experiments in MLflow, lifting revenue 15% — roughly $9M a year.
- Developed an AI-powered planning tool that generates step-by-step job routings and work-order instructions from the knowledge base, encoding material and IPC-spec requirements, accelerating job-release planning 32%.
Data Scientist
August 2023 — December 2025
University of Southern California — Student Health · Los Angeles, CA
- Delivered standardised generative-AI and RAG workflows on student-feedback data, improving analytics coverage 70% and doubling reporting efficiency.
- Served as SME on responsible and explainable AI, leading subgroup bias-detection and fairness analysis that lifted student outreach engagement 15%.
- Improved sentiment-analysis accuracy 27%, to 87%, by fine-tuning BERT-based models, and built engagement models on real-time feedback that lifted student retention 5%.
- Engineered a Qdrant vector-search RAG pipeline that cut retrieval latency 33% at 92% recall@k.
- Designed ARIMA forecasting models of student engagement, optimising resource allocation 30% and saving $120K a year.
Data Scientist Intern
June 2024 — August 2024
Nexon America · Los Angeles, CA
- Shipped a cross-functional RAG feedback tool with CI/CD and Slack monitoring, cutting reporting lag around 87.5%.
- Deployed LLM and forecasting models on AWS (ECS, EC2) with Docker and Airflow for team reproducibility.
- Built an AI-powered Streamlit app for real-time, API-driven sentiment analysis, cutting reporting time 50%.
- Automated Snowflake pipelines for LLM workflows, improving training efficiency 35% through schema optimisation.
Data Scientist
August 2018 — July 2023
Orion Housing · Los Angeles, CA
- Developed and deployed predictive pricing models on Dockerised Airflow pipelines in production, adding over $200K in annual revenue.
- Partnered with marketing and operations on model-driven pricing, raising average occupancy 15% in underutilised units.
- Automated model deployment with Dockerised Airflow pipelines, cutting deployment lag 40% and scaling inference 2x.
Skills
- Languages & data
- Python
- SQL
- NoSQL
- Snowflake
- Pandas
- NumPy
- ML & AI
- Scikit-learn
- PyTorch
- TensorFlow
- LLMs
- RAG
- LangChain / LangGraph
- Qdrant
- MLOps & cloud
- Docker
- Airflow
- MLflow
- CI/CD
- Git
- AWS (Bedrock, ECS, EC2)
- Model monitoring
Education
Master of Science in Business Analytics (STEM)
University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business
Los Angeles, CA
Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Linguistics
University of Southern California, College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Los Angeles, CA