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Work Experience
Software Development Engineer II
April 2025 - Present
Amazon Web Services, Seattle, WA
AWS Bedrock Guardrails
- Launched LLM-backed guardrail tiers processing 150M+ tokens/min across 60+ languages
- Optimized prompt-based systems for latency, cost, and availability with prompt caching and cross-region inference
- Configured Guardrail Image Filter model for inference; improved throughput 50% with multi-tenant GPU hosts
- Developed internal system for in-domain confidence of Guardrails content moderation
Software Development Engineer
September 2023 - April 2025
Amazon Web Services, Seattle, WA
AWS Bedrock Guardrails
- Launched customer-configurable PII detection guardrails processing 250M tokens/min
- Increased model performance 84% with FlashAttention and classification heads increasing throughput
- Reduced hosting costs 64% across a 4,000-GPU fleet, lowering customer costs
- Used AWS CDK IaC to deploy across 25 regions with 99.99% availability
- Engineering liaison with PhD ML scientists to optimize SLMs for inference
Software Development Engineer
August 2022 - September 2023
Amazon Web Services, Seattle, WA
AWS IoT Greengrass
- Implemented native AWS canary services with AWS CDK IaC to monitor product health
- Deployed services to EC2 with CI/CD pipelines, test automation, and CloudWatch monitoring
- Collaborated on high-level solutions with well-organized documentation
- Recognized for outstanding work in 45%+ of sprint retrospectives
- Developed open-source components to ensure high availability at the edge
Software Development Engineer Intern
May 2021 - September 2021
Amazon Web Services, Seattle, WA
AWS IoT Device Ecosystem
- Built a cloud-based hardware mutex for collaboration and automation in software testing
- Investigated and defined team productivity losses through research and analysis
- Provisioned and tuned cloud services with AWS CDK IaC for reliability and security
- Wrote production-quality Python, Go, and TypeScript for varied project needs
Full-Stack Engineer
December 2019 - December 2020
DALI Lab, Hanover, NH
- Collaborated with an interdisciplinary Agile team to design, develop, and deploy multiple software solutions
- Implemented multiple tech stacks dependent on project needs
- Contributed to many diverse projects over multiple terms
- Project Pine Beetle - a web platform to visualize and predict outbreaks of Southern Pine Beetle
- GoPhish - an education tool to teach users to identify and prevent phishing attacks
- SLAR - Sign Language Augmented Reality game to teach finger spelling
- Vox Daily - Modernization of campus email news system
Data Science Researcher
December 2020 - Present
Computer Science Department at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
- Utilized Unix scripting tools, Python, and Ctypes, to quickly parse and transform massive datasets
- Aggregated, summarized, and anonymized 15+ years of Wifi Syslog files for research distribution
Data Science Intern
June 2019 - September 2019
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO
- Using Python and LabVIEW, designed and implemented a database analysis tool for accelerator functionality
- Provided curated graphics and metrics for novel insights on historical data in a SQL database
- Iteratively improved user interface and capabilities based on projected user needs
Education
Dartmouth College
Sept 2018 - June 2022
Major in Computer Science, Minor in Engineering
Coursework
Reinforcement Learning (independent study)
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Robotics
Software Development
Algorithms
Discrete Math
Full-Stack Web Development
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