ML Engineer specializing in LLMs and NLP

ML Engineer / AI Engineer / Data Scientist with 3 years of industry experience across ML systems, NLP, and large-scale data pipelines. Built and shipped production Vertex AI training pipelines (Melio), distributed PySpark ETL processing 5M+ invoices/year and graph analytics driving 15% revenue growth (Vayana Network), and currently researching uncertainty quantification for medical image registration at UCSD's BIAG Lab. Holds an MS CS (AI) from UC San Diego with a 4.0 GPA. Projects include LLM agent evaluation, low-resource NMT with LoRA, and abstractive headline generation. Open to MLE, AI Engineer, and Applied Scientist roles in San Diego, Bay Area, or NYC.