hey 👋👋 i am a recent grad from cmu specializing in ml, cs, and philosophy.
production experience with react, ruby on rails, sqlite, and aws. looking for work 🛠️
Work
Head Teaching Assistant – CMU 15-110 – Python, Tkinter, Pandas
SWE Intern – Snapsheet – React, Redux, Typescript, Ruby on Rails, Sqlite, AWS
SWE Intern – CSL Behring – Javascript, Python, MongoDB, AWS, Grafana
Teaching Assistant – CMU 15-110 – Python, Tkinter, Pandas
Projects
15-112 AI TA – Fine-tuned a variety of open-source LLMs including Llama3 using LoRA to create more helpful and instructive answers to student questions, augmented with RAG and ELO-based human evaluation – Python, HuggingFace, Unsloth, Chrome DB
Bustub – Created key features of a DBMS including a buffer pool manager, extendible hash index, and concurrent query executer – C++
LoRA – Implemented Low Rank Adaptation for GPT-2 to do semantic analysis on Rotten Tomatoes movie reviews – Python, PyTorch, HuggingFace, GPT-2
RoPE & GQA – Added Rotary Position Embeddings and GQA to minGPT to generate Shakespeare using PyTorch – Python, PyTorch, GPT-3
Mila Fejzo Art – Created a website for a local artist to showcase their work and sell their art – React, Strapi, Javascript, Netlify, Heroku
QG & QA System – Implemented system that answered/generated questions from a wikipedia article using a homemade neural net built with PyTorch and a variety of pretrained models – Python, PyTorch, HuggingFace
Single Hidden Layer Neural Net for Character Prediction – Trained on a subset of the MNISC character data set, fully implemented backpropagation for SGD from scratch – Python, Numpy