<aside> <img src="/icons/attachment_blue.svg" alt="/icons/attachment_blue.svg" width="40px" /> Welcome to my professional journey! Here, I've compiled a chronological showcase of career milestones and other activites I've been involved in, both past and present. While the passage of time has dimmed some memories of earlier projects, this space serves as a testament to my continuous evolution and the diverse experiences I've gathered along the way. Stay tuned as I periodically update and reflect on my personal and professional milestones.

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2024

• Won first place at the AI Conference HackDay Challenge in San Francisco alongside my friend Tanya, collaborating to develop and present an innovative AI solution during an intensive hackathon competition. [Twitter] [LinkedIn]
• Published a comprehensive AWS Bedrock tutorial in Towards Data Science, co-authored with Vladyslav Seredniy, detailing the step-by-step process of setting up development environments for GenAI web applications. 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.
• Engineered a real-time speech-to-speech translation system by integrating multiple AI services and cloud technologies, including AWS Bedrock, Sagemaker, DynamoDB, GraphQL, Whisper, and Deepgram TTS.
• Completed Stanford’s XCS224W: Machine Learning with Graphs.

2023

• Lived in beautiful British Columbia, Canada on Vancouver Island and interior BC (Rossland) temporarily, while taking a learning sabbatical.
• Balanced my tech time by making 5 large and colorful paintings, taking anywhere from 5-50 hours / each.
• Completed Stanford’s XCS221: Artificial Intelligence: Principles and Techniques
• Became an USA Citizen.
• Led the optimization of a K-means clustering algorithm for GPU parallel processing, transforming a CPU-bound implementation into a highly efficient parallel computing solution.
• Helped our intern Alex write the Python code for an article describing a k-means algorithm that he had come up with in C. The article was accepted by Towards Data Science and has had 10k+ views.

2022

• Began work and study with Bongard.ai.
• Enrolled in Stanford’s Artificial Intelligence Professional Program.

2021