Senior ML Engineer at Coram AI · Palo Alto, CA
- Real-time voice + text AI agents at Coram
- Head of ML at Nextera Robotics (founding ML engineer → led a team of 2). SLAM pipeline turning 5,000+ industrial site walks into sub-cm 3D digital twins, distributed ML on AWS Batch (1,000+ parallel jobs), full-stack platform with Three.js + Django.
- Research physicist at CERN / Brown on the CMS HGCAL silicon sensor program — neutron irradiation campaigns, C++ analysis pipelines on multi-TB datasets.
Languages Python · Go · C++ · TypeScript · SQL · CUDA ML / AI PyTorch · LLM agents · OpenAI Realtime · Gemini · LiveKit · classical computer vision Infra AWS (EKS, Batch, Lambda, IoT) · Kubernetes · Docker · Argo CD · GitHub Actions Backend FastAPI · Postgres · Redis · RabbitMQ · OpenTelemetry · Langfuse
- M.S. Physics, Brown University (2022) — thesis on silicon sensor irradiation for the LHC HL upgrade
- B.S. Physics + B.S. Mathematics, UCLA (2020) — thesis on single-particle dynamics in plasma Alfvén waves
Before the engineering career, I trained as a chef at the Culinary Institute of America (Napa Valley + Hyde Park, 2011–2013) and worked the line as chef de partie at COI, Manresa, and Baume — all 2–3 Michelin star.
These days the energy goes into endurance racing. Recent and upcoming:
| Event | Where | When |
|---|---|---|
| Half Ironman | St. George, UT | May 2025 |
| Tarawera 100-Mile Ultra | Rotorua, NZ | Feb 2026 |
| Ironman | Nice, France | Jun 2026 |
| Kagaspa 100K Ultra | Ishikawa, Japan | Jun 2026 |
| Ironman California | Sacramento, CA | Oct 2026 |



