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I’m an AI Engineer and an author for Towards Data Science, publishing a series on using Generative AI with full-stack AWS infrastructure. Recently, I’ve been focusing on boosting computational efficiency by parallelizing algorithms and developing a low-latency speech-to-speech translation tool to streamline team collaboration.
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<aside> <img src="/icons/briefcase_blue.svg" alt="/icons/briefcase_blue.svg" width="40px" /> Workplaces: Bongard.ai, Stanford University, National Research Council of Canada, Hylo, Castlight Health
Education: B.Sc. Computer Science with a focus in Computational Neuroscience, Dalhousie University, 2007
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<aside> <img src="/icons/trophy_blue.svg" alt="/icons/trophy_blue.svg" width="40px" /> Awards AI Conference Hack Day HackrChallenge Winner [Twitter] [LinkedIn]
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<aside> <img src="/icons/attachment_green.svg" alt="/icons/attachment_green.svg" width="40px" /> Certificates Artificial Intelligence Professional Program, Stanford University, in progress User Experience Design, General Assembly, 2015
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<aside> <img src="/icons/computer_yellow.svg" alt="/icons/computer_yellow.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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I’m active on Leetcode and publish optimized and concise English language problem solutions (see Solutions section on profile).
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<aside> <img src="/icons/document_yellow.svg" alt="/icons/document_yellow.svg" width="40px" /> Resume [=] View most recent resume
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<aside> <img src="/icons/paste_orange.svg" alt="/icons/paste_orange.svg" width="40px" /> Areas of Expertise
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Speeding up Parallelized Algorithms
Mini Course on Whole Brain Emulation (WBE)
Mindapedia
Labrynth | Knowledge Acquisition Platform
Daily Productivity (with Oura Ring Data)
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<aside> 🛠 **Work Experience
Bongard.ai** As Bongard, I contributed to research and development by parallelizing a custom K-means clustering algorithm for GPU processing, achieving a 1600x speedup and reducing processing time from 1 day to 1 minute. I built a multimodal AI agent for speech-to-speech tasks leveraging AWS Bedrock, Sagemaker, Deepgram TTS, OpenAI API, Weaviate, DynamoDB, and GraphQL.
Hologos LLC As founder of Hologos LLC Consulting, I led transformative digital initiatives for clients across education and sustainability sectors - including architecting CapraCourse.net which reached 50,000+ users across academia and industry, and helping environmental innovator Josh Whiton to develop MakeSoil.org which scaled to 800 sites across 53 countries.
Through strategic consulting and hands-on development, I consistently delivered measurable client results, including a 100% increase in course enrollments through digital transformation and a 40% boost in conversion rates through targeted UX improvements. Over 5 years, I managed the successful delivery of 30+ high-impact digital projects, focusing on driving ROI through data-driven optimization and performance-focused design.
Hylo At Hylo, I drove a 20x increase in community engagement by implementing comprehensive data-driven improvements - from optimizing the user onboarding flow to conducting A/B tests that informed feature development. As a full-stack developer, I architected and built an open-source collaboration platform that remains active today, focusing on creating seamless user experiences from UX design through backend integration that measurably improved user retention and community interaction.
Stanford University Center for Neurobiological Imaging At Stanford University's Center for Neurobiology, I spearheaded the frontend architecture for a cross-institutional fMRI research platform that enabled sharing of thousands of high-value brain scans (valued at millions of dollars) across leading U.S. universities. I focused on creating an intuitive interface that facilitated seamless collaboration and data access for neuroscience researchers.
Castlight Health At Castlight Health, I accelerated development velocity for a 40-engineer team by 10x through architecting a reusable UI component library, reducing feature implementation time from months to hours while improving code maintainability through systematic refactoring.
National Research Council of Canada** CISTI ****At Canada's National Research Council, I transformed the National Science Library's Java-based CMS platform that supported 1,500+ scientific projects, implementing improvements that enhanced research capabilities and drove millions in research impact.
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<aside> <img src="/icons/checklist_blue.svg" alt="/icons/checklist_blue.svg" width="40px" /> Stuff I’ve Done
Explore my professional timeline featuring a variety of past and present projects, reflecting my evolving career and diverse experiences.
Short Courses I’ve Completed:
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Java, Python, C, Turbo Pascal
AWS, LangChain, RAG, Neo4j, SageMaker
AngularJS, React, HTML / CSS / Javascript
Invision, Sketch, UI / UX & Product Management
CUDA C, Kernels, Parallelized Code**
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<aside> <img src="/icons/token_yellow.svg" alt="/icons/token_yellow.svg" width="40px" /> Notable Achievements
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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I paint as a hobby and post my artwork to Instagram.
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<aside> <img src="/icons/geography_purple.svg" alt="/icons/geography_purple.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
Current location: Berkeley, SF Bay Area, California
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