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NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Pasadena, CA)
Senior Engineer, 2015—present
Manage toolchain development and generate a set of challenges for the DARPA assured micro-patching program.
Defined requirements and created architecture to assist the Sample Caching System Qualification Model Dirty Testing team with streamlining test operations and data pipelines for a M2020 Perseverance Jupyter Notebook extension.
Designed assessment API and collected machine learning corpora for project aiming to reduce Al/ML algorithm labels by 6x.
Created specifications and architecture for a lightweight, on-demand parallel analytics system that uses Map-Reduce instead of Apache Spark; presented paper at 2019 AGU.
Lead firmware team for a lunar flashlight laser instrument.
Designed components for rad-tolerant low power avionics for deep space small spacecraft.
Developed prototype, CI/CD framework, and automated testing framework for software.
Prototyped systems and conducted research for space hardware and software.


University of California (Los Angeles, CA)
M.S., Electrical Engineering, 2020
Emphasis – Artificial intelligence on Hardware

California State Polytechnic University (Pomona, CA)
B.S., Computer Engineering, 2016

View the latest version of my résumé (Updated January 15th,2013). Here

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