Professional Experience

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Flawless • Full-time

Oct 2023 - now

Santa Monica, CA

Machine Learning Engineer

May 2024 - now

  • Pioneered fully automated pipeline for the core product, reducing the time to process new client projects from 4 weeks to 1 day
  • Standardized component interfaces and built parameterizable template repository with fully automated CI/CD process, reducing the time to integrate new research solutions from 2 months to 6 hours
  • Orchestrated distributed experiments with full lineage, processing up to 400 million frames per hour

Deep Learning Data Engineer

Oct 2023 - May 2024 • 8 months

  • Created scalable framework for ingesting, processing, and curating visual data, delivering 7 datasets and 54 million samples
  • Developed sampling algorithm for custom training distributions, increasing model performance by 3-7% for 12 projects in total
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NLP Research Engineer

Tekst.ai • Internship

Jun 2023 - Jul 2023 • 2 months

Ghent, Belgium

  • Invented method to measure degree of privacy-preservation in text embeddings, contributing to $90K business deal
  • Designed parallelized, distributed experiments with innovative caching scheme, reducing benchmarking time for different product solutions to under 3 minutes
  • Created web-based labeling tool pre-annotated with internal ML-based suggestions, reducing manual annotation time by 95%
  • Deployed an enhanced email parser in production, leading to an average accuracy gain of 0.5% across all customers
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Deep Learning Research Engineer

Robovision • Internship

Jun 2021 - Jul 2021 • 2 months

Ghent, Belgium

  • Investigated 11 approaches to detect performance issues in neural networks deployed in production
  • Delivered novel method detecting inference mistakes and distribution shifts on all production datasets with an overhead of less than 1% by combining 3 different techniques
  • Collaborated within Algorithms Team to improve existing algorithms and finish 4 software engineering issues
  • Introduced new custom debugging approach, making team members 50% more efficient in solving new issues
  • Enhanced optimization scheme of 2 production models, resulting in performance increases at 20+ customers
  • Increased stability and performance of most important classifier algorithm in company by 10%
  • Documented 3 solutions for general problems during existing codebase setup, optimizing future employee onboarding process
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Software Developer

ST Engineering iDirect • Internship

Jun 2020 - Jul 2020 • 2 months

Sint-Niklaas, Belgium

  • Developed end-to-end testing framework for satellite traffic in Python and Robot Framework
  • Created package evaluating and summarizing performance of complete Dialog system with one single command
  • Presented results and discussed software architecture in daily meetings with international team of 15 people
  • Created 3 integration tests for modem configuration user interface, ensuring reliable software at 120+ customers
  • Compared and summarized testing framework support and learning curve for 7 different IDE’s in Confluence, optimizing development speed for all employees