– Present

Feb 2025 – Present · 1 yr 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

• Lead the AI and ML teams at Strava building models to help millions of athletes around the world push their limits and achieve their goals through AI driven insights and recommendations for connections to athletes and communities to motivate them.
• In my role at Strava, I am responsible for ML systems including recommenders, search, trust and safety as well as generative models and our Machine Learning Platform.

Oct 2022 – Mar 2025 · 2 yrs 5 mos

• I lead our AI and Data teams to establish Digital Measurement, Reporting and Verification protocols for nature based projects to ensure high quality and accurate carbon crediting. As director I manage teams which provide Machine Learning solutions for forest conservation and restoration project baselines and biomass estimates from computer vision based understanding on remote sensors (like Satellite, LiDAR and aerial imagery) as well data platform teams to empower and serve our core data products.
• I bridged our sciences and product teams ensure Pachama's models could move from research to customer facing insights.

Jun 2021 – Oct 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Led the Graph Affinities and Pages AI team at LinkedIn, focused on ensuring the best use of the network you've grown and built on LinkedIn
• Develop affinity models from LinkedIn's social and economic graph to improve relevance and personalization for members and companies through integration and customization with a number of different surfaces on the platform such as notifications and feed. We've focused on building a scalable, customizable graph neural network framework.
• Focus on specific driving Company engagement on LinkedIn by improving distribution of Company content and improving the company admin experience to grow the Page ecosystems.

Sep 2014 – Jan 2016 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Simulated and designed energetically optimal gaits for MIT Cheetah. Used principles from biomechanics and the methods used by animals to study how a running robotic quadruped could most efficiently run. Built a model and simulation of the robot. Utilized shooting and collocation methods to perform trajectory optimization to find most efficient motions, controls and design parameters for the robotic cheetah.

Jun 2014 – Sep 2014 · 3 mos · Houston, Texas Area

• Created a database of key parameters in design and testing of past control and power umbilicals-Analyzed database for areas to standardize in future umbilical designs.

Jan 2014 – Jun 2014 · 5 mos

• Explored ocean wave dynamic instabilities and the resulting probability of rogue waves. Developed a MATLAB simulation of rogue wave occurrences.

Jun 2013 – Aug 2013 · 2 mos

• Designed and implemented an apparatus and controls for a prototype lithography platform. Built or specified fabrication of parts for optic and microfluidic subsystems

May 2012 – Aug 2012 · 3 mos

• Analyzed data and developed graph/charts to depict progress of planned implementation versus actual by
• tracking and researching existing services projects based on customer impact and overall cost. Created a matrix of past projects by developing analysis of projects reviewed by type, frequency, customer, etc.