Resume / CV

Founder & Principal Engineer — AI Products, Production Platforms, and Full-Lifecycle Delivery.

Summary

I carry ambitious systems from problem definition through product architecture, implementation, release infrastructure, production operations, and commercial evolution. The record includes a multi-tenant vertical AI platform, air-gapped distributed ML, sub-50ms edge inference, production protocols, and peer-reviewed research.

  • 0→1 vertical AI product ownership
  • Release, deployment, and production operations
  • Multi-million-dollar protocol operations
  • Sub-50ms operational inference
  • 7+ years across secure systems

Proof Points

Selected wins with transferable outcomes.

TurnkeyHQ — Full Product Lifecycle

Owned a vertical AI product from market thesis through architecture, implementation, tenant safety, QA, release infrastructure, production operations, packaging, and commercial evolution. Current platform scope includes 14 services, 171 migrations, 244 API routes, 73 dashboard pages, and 75 agent skills.

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Decentralized Storage Network

Built and operated a production storage platform from the ground up: anti-tamper verification, reliability/integrity guarantees, incentive system design, and real-time monitoring. Operated to ~$7M avg MRR (~$60M revenue).

U.S. Navy — Real-Time Detection Pipeline

Led ML engineering for a real-time detection pipeline: signal processing + deep learning, optimizing accuracy/false-alarm tradeoffs and latency. Built simulation + synthetic-data workflows for robust training. Helped secure ~$5M multi-year follow-on.

Production LLM Fine-Tuning (128-GPU)

Owned end-to-end: data pipelines, training orchestration, deployment, and operator workflows in regulated environments. Reduced fine-tuning costs 65% via quantized adapters on commodity hardware.

Work Experience

Selected roles focused on systems that have to remain reliable under adversarial, operational, or highly constrained conditions.

2025 – Present

Co-founder & Principal Engineer — Alchemical AI LLC / TurnkeyHQ

Product, engineering, release, and operations
  • Conceived and built TurnkeyHQ from zero into a versioned, multi-tenant vertical AI platform spanning product architecture, dashboard, APIs, data, agent runtime, integrations, billing, and operations.
  • Designed a 14-service topology with nine independently built images, tenant-isolated data and runtime boundaries, deterministic workflows, and human approval for consequential actions.
  • Established the release system: reviewed release PRs, semver artifacts, evidence gates, signed images, blocking staging canaries, deploy verification, rollback, and split-fleet detection.
  • Built product lifecycle machinery including tiered plans, usage credits, checkout, vendor cost controls, tenant onboarding, observability, runbooks, and governed roadmap documentation.
July 2020 – Present

Senior Machine Learning Software Engineer — Black River Systems Co.

Utica, NY
  • Owned distributed LLM fine-tuning capability end-to-end (data pipeline → training → deployment → operator workflows) in high-security production environment.
  • Built low-latency edge inference pipeline (<50 ms E2E on Jetson) — transferable to real-time inspection, IoT, and sensor AI applications.
  • Shipped online learning system for autonomous fleets with bandwidth-aware sync; reduced data egress 60% while maintaining model quality.
  • Designed scalable agentic system with continuous data ingestion and Blue-Green deployment infrastructure.
  • Led stakeholder communication and technical briefings; influenced annual AI readiness budget decisions.
June 2019 – May 2020

Data Scientist I — Northeast Information Discovery, Inc.

Canastota, NY
  • Built RF signal classifier (+12pp accuracy) using attention-based spectral encoders — applicable to any noisy-signal classification task.
  • Developed production APIs and deployed models into streaming environments (R, Python, C++).
Aug 2018 – Jan 2019

Teaching Assistant (Advanced OOP) — Rochester Institute of Technology

Rochester, NY
  • Redesigned course recitations around test-driven patterns; improved student project quality 25%.

Education

May 2019

M.S., Computer Science

Rochester Institute of Technology Deep Learning, Statistical Machine Learning, Advanced ML Topics
May 2013

B.M., Performance (Music Theory Minor)

University of North Texas

Toolchain

Languages Python, Rust, R, Bash, SQL (plus C++/JS/TS familiarity)
Frameworks & Infra PyTorch, TensorFlow, NumPy/SciPy, Pandas, FastAPI, Docker, Kubernetes, Slurm, Git, Linux/Unix, AWS/GCP/Azure

Next steps

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