Sep 2024 – Apr 2025 · 7 mos · Simi Valley, California, United States · Remote

• Led development of an AI Agent building platform, guiding product from concept to implementation.
• Streamlined the product spec, process and team composition
• Guided three internal demos, leading to interest from the sales team and customers.
• Drove the Enterprise RAG solution for a key customer, leading to a $76K upselling prospect.
• Represented Orkes at industry events.
• Initiated and conducted Candid conversations series, highlighting workflow engines and Orkes’ advantages in the AI Agents space.
• Consistently partnered with sales, advancing our pitch, especially regarding AI offerings.

May 2024 – Jun 2024 · 1 mo · Simi Valley, California, United States · Remote

Oct 2019 – Mar 2024 · 4 yrs 5 mos · Los Angeles, California, United States · Hybrid

• [ 0-1, Aligning teams, LLMs, NLU, NLP, GenAI, Inpainting, Video, Audio and Image processing]
• Owned the zero state experience for Tenor, serving billions of queries per day.
• ML Lead at Tenor.
• Started and managed the BrickML Moonstones team from scratch empowering speakers of languages underserved by Technology. Talk Demo
• Advisor to BrickML Sapphires team, helped them focus and align on making educational content in all languages.
• Taught many sessions of the LLM Bootcamp course.
• Mentored junior engineers on the team. Provided LLM-related guidance for a team to pitch at Area120.
• Collaborated with CoreML teams to identify models suitable for text inpainting, and the AI4Design team to advance a prototype solution for GIF selection from videos.
• Prototyped a solution to democratize app development, by leveraging AI/ML advancements.
• Prototyped a solution to automate GIF selection from videos. [ Drishti, Python ]
• Designed and implemented Search suggestions v2 for Tenor expression search. [ C++, PLX ]
• Built new, simpler pipelines and enabled non-English support for trending terms. [ C++, PLX, AppsScript ]
• Created prototype for erasing and replacing text on GIFs with localized versions.[ Gen AI, Python ]

Feb 2017 – Oct 2019 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Calabassas, CA

• Started the Machine Learning group.
• Productized Custom TTS and singing Voice synthesis for DittyMoji, serving millions of requests per day.
• Own key areas of Ditty API including render speeds and Voice Quality.
• Provide Solution guidance, Workflow Planning and estimation.
• Technical Leadership and advice to CEO on Technical and Business issues related to new initiative.
• Implemented custom voice model training and rendering pipelines.
• Improved render performance of Ditty Server [ serving millions of requests a day ] by 40%.
• Developed WorkFlow Plans for key new initiative.
• Devised Push Notification management strategy for mobile app.

Oct 2010 – Jan 2017 · 6 yrs 3 mos · WestLake Village, CA

• Developed a system to measure 3DIC image sensor bonding quality using Rust.
• Built an image sensor characterization system ( SucCEEd ) using C# .
• Rearchitected our flagship characterization system ( ProCEEd ), developed in C using LabWindows/CVI, to multi-threaded with enhanced usability and ported to 64 bit Windows 7.
• Rearchitected firmware MicroBlaze code and corresponding VHDL to make it more robust to future changes.
• Integrated Verilog ASIC digital blocks into Evaluation Kit firmware to enable exploration of algorithms. This effort led to discovery of issues that could have cost an additional spin.
• Wrote pixel accurate C Models for verification of digital blocks on the image sensors.
• Designed and developed tools to automate conversion of Register List Excel files to ProCEEd UI files and tools to generate and analyse different gamma functions.

Jan 2008 – Jan 2009 · 1 yr

• Helped Organize the 2008 Super Science Sunday

Jan 2006 – Jan 2007 · 1 yr

• Motivated colleagues to adopt best practices in Quality and provided a reference implementation of a tool saving several work weeks as a direct result of its use. Received Special Appreciation Award for this effort
• Automated a test harness for Jitter Separation functions contributing to higher confidence in the code.
• Initiated and established the Software Engineering Excellence Award as an active member of the Software Engineering Process Group.
• Setup and Coordinated a study group on code refactoring, resulting in improved response times to customer issues related to Legacy code.

Aug 2004 – Oct 2010 · 6 yrs 2 mos

• First contact for simulation post processing functions and the underlying expressions architecture in ADS.
• Set precedent for using Qt widgets in an otherwise legacy Layered API-only component dialog.
• Implemented Jitter separation functionality for non periodic signals. Resolved several critical issues in the UI.
• Performed usability analysis and implemented certain UI features in Qt for Optimization Cockpit which was the major highlight of ADS 2009 Update1.
• Solved business critical performance issues in ADS for Motorola, one of our biggest customers. This effort assisted in making further inroads into that account and contributed to increased customer satisfaction scores.
• Led team to completion of a critical project after the manager had to leave midway. Created a Progress Tracker Spread sheet tool that saved time and simplified the process of updating for all contributors.
• Delivered a significant performance improvement for loading BSIM model-file data. Improved the data error calculation interface for the graphics package and improved the GUI rendering performance.
• Improved the performance of a string library as part of an overall enhancement effort that led to a $2M sale. Received a cash award for this effort.

Oct 2002 – Apr 2003 · 6 mos

• Designed and developed a translator from a proprietary mixed singal modeling language to Simplorer SML and VHDL-AMS using ANTLR

Aug 2000 – Aug 2001 · 1 yr

• Ported Windows3.0 applications to the Win32 API for a major client.
• Provided expertise on Windows C API and porting issues leading to increased Customer Satisfaction score on a project for The Coca-Cola Company