CV
Experience
Mozilla.ai
ML Systems Engineer | Aug 2025 – Present
Independent Technology Consultant
ML/AI Architect | Sept 2024 – Present
- Architected enterprise-level natural language processing and information retrieval systems for Fortune 50 technology companies, focusing on workflow automation solutions that enhance infrastructure reliability and operational efficiency
- Provided comprehensive technical advisory services spanning MLOps infrastructure design, development roadmap planning, and best practices for scaling ML operations
Seek AI (Acquired by IBM)
Head of AI (Lead ML Engineer) | Apr 2022 – Aug 2024
- Built a state-of-the-art ML system for semantic parsing and information retrieval, achieving 91.2% execution accuracy (current SOTA) on the Spider Text-to-SQL Benchmark while building and mentoring a high-performing team of 8 ML researchers & engineers
- Developed comprehensive MLOps infrastructure including automated data pipelines and monitoring systems, while driving strategic technical decisions across engineering, product, and design teams
- Led technical strategy, research partnerships, and presentations that secured $10M in seed funding while establishing engineering best practices and fostering a culture of innovation
Montclair NLP Lab
Graduate Assistant | Sep 2021 – May 2023
- Conducted original research in lexical semantic shift detection in Modern Hebrew
- Assisted professors teaching undergraduate courses in cognitive science and phonology
Aphelion Orbitals
Co-founder | Oct 2016 – Nov 2018
- Devised successful budget for $500k seed funding round
- Oversaw communications and reports to investors
- Developed and maintained in-house and cloud computing operations
Patents & Publications
Failure Modes of LLM Judges in Alignment Benchmarking
Conference Paper | Coauthor, Accepted at ICLR 2025 | Jan 2025
MisMo: More is More in Alignment
Workshop Paper | Coauthor, Accepted at SFLLM 2024 @ NeurIPS | Dec 2024
NLP Methods and Systems for Querying Datasets
Method Patent | Patent Nos. 19,099,502 & 12,099,503 | Sep 2024
Education
Johns Hopkins University
MS Systems Engineering (part-time) | I/P
- Relevant Coursework: Introduction to Systems Engineering, Management of Systems Projects
Montclair State University
MS Computational Linguistics | May 2023
- Capstone Project: Lexical Bias in Generating SQL Descriptions with Few-shot Learning
- Relevant Coursework: Computational Linguistics, Data Mining, Quantitative Linguistics, Special Topics in NLP, Machine Learning
St John's College (MD)
BA History of Mathematics & Science, Philosophy | May 2021
- Senior Essay: Evolution and Calculus: An Exploration of the Genesis of Complex Analysis in Cauchy's 1825 Memorandum
- Minors in classics, & comparative literature
- Relevant Coursework: Preceptorials in Chaos Theory and Computation; tutorials in Non-Euclidean Geometry and Number Theory
Certifications
INCOSE Associate Systems Engineering Professional (ASEP)
May 2025
Invited Talks
Generative AI: A Phenomenal Science
Arthur AI Fest 2024 | Invited Talk | Sep 2024
Building Safe AI: What We Can Learn from Golems and Copper Men
Datafest Tbilisi 2024 | Workshop | Sep 2024
Arthur AI Ground Truth: AI Crashes the Science Party
Arthur AI | Panel | Feb 2024
ChatGPT & the Future of AI
Montclair State University | Panel | Feb 2023
Projects & Volunteering
Ptolemy
Core Maintainer | Oct 2024 – Current
- Lead architect of Ptolemy, an open-source ML observability platform built with Rust, PyO3, and gRPC, implementing systems engineering methodologies to provide comprehensive monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities
- Engineered high-performance data ingestion pipeline and flexible connector ecosystem enabling direct SQL querying of ML monitoring data without semantic layer limitations
- Designed extensible plugin architecture and API framework allowing seamless integration with existing ML infrastructure while maintaining enterprise-grade security controls
Community Security Service (CSS)
Team Lead, ROAM | Jan 2024 – Current
- Lead tactical security deployments protecting high-risk Jewish institutions and public events in coordination with law enforcement and EMS
- Trained in counterterrorism protocols, emergency response, and combat readiness as part of a rapid-response unit
- Led real-world rapid-response ops where failure = physical harm. Same systems mindset, higher stakes
Skills
Core Technologies: Python, Rust, SQL, GraphQL
ML & AI Infrastructure: PyTorch, JAX/FLAX, Deepspeed, NVIDIA Triton, MLFlow, W&B, Vector Stores (PGVector, Weaviate, Qdrant)
Large Language Models: LangChain, Huggingface Transformers, LLM Platforms (OpenAI, Anthropic, Groq, Cohere)
Data Infrastructure: PostgreSQL, Snowflake, BigQuery, DuckDB, Clickhouse, Airflow, dbt, Kafka
Backend & APIs: FastAPI, Django, Axum, Tokio, PyO3
Cloud & DevOps: Docker, Kubernetes, GCP, Azure, OCI