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Experience

10 years in data, ML, and AI

Work​

March 2024 - February 2026​

Senior AI Engineer 2 @ Drata

Joined through Harmonize acquisition. Responsible for all AI functionality inside Drata.

  • Built AI agents that generate and maintain 1,000+ compliance tests at scale
  • Indexed all data into Weaviate vector database using Flink
  • Deployed AI pipelines built on Bedrock and Anthropic
  • Wrote API endpoints with TypeScript

August 2022 - March 2024​

Data and ML Engineering Consultant @ Konvex.io

Consultant across data science, data engineering, and machine learning functions.

  • Harmonize (Founding Engineer, Head of Data): Built first version of RAG-powered question-answering app for security questionnaires using Docker, FastAPI, Anthropic, LangChain, SQLAlchemy, and Pinecone
  • Nixtla (Staff ML Engineer): Scaled statsforecast library to distributed computing on Spark, Dask, and Ray
  • Citi (VP Risk Analytics): Accelerated large scale economic forecasts with Dask and Ray. Built internal tooling for data scientists

March 2021 - July 2022​

Senior Open Source Community Engineer @ Prefect

  • Helped developers build reliable data pipelines with Prefect
  • Created tutorials, documentation, and community resources
  • Spoke at PyCon and SciPy about workflow orchestration

October 2019 - March 2021​

Data Scientist @ Paylocity

January 2017 - October 2019​

Associate Data Scientist @ Itron

March 2016 - June 2017​

Hydrology Researcher @ US Geological Survey

Open Source​

October 2020 - Present​

Co-author @ Fugue

A unified interface for distributed computing that allows users to write code in native Python or Pandas and port it to Spark, Dask, or Ray.

2,100+ GitHub stars · 16M+ downloads · 420 Slack members

Education​

B.S./M.S. in Civil Engineering · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · 2010 - 2016

Volunteer & Community​

  • Co-organizer · PyData Seattle 2023 · April 2023
  • Co-chair, Data Life Cycle Track · SciPy 2022 · July 2022
  • Volunteer Project Manager/Data Scientist · DataKind · November 2017 - November 2021
    • Worked on a project with Embrace Families aimed at reducing social worker burnout.