Junior Applied AI Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and agentic systems
La Jolla, CAApplied AI Engineer2 years experienceJuniorArtificial IntelligenceTechnologySaaS
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Co-founded a healthcare AI startup building and deploying software directly with end users, emphasizing rapid shipping, deep user interviews, and workflow-first adoption. Has hands-on production deployment experience on AWS (including diagnosing a silent AWS App Runner failure caused by an ARM vs amd64 Docker build mismatch) and is motivated by customer-facing, travel-heavy roles to keep engineering tightly connected to real-world usage.
Experience
Applied AI EngineerUniwise.ai
Graduate Research AssistantShang Data Lab, UCSD
Career Exploration (Machine Learning) InternShaachi
Education
University of California, San Diegomaster, Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence Depth)
University of California, San Diegobachelor, Computer Engineering (2024)
Key Strengths
Built and shipped customer-facing software as a healthcare AI startup co-founder
Uses fast user-interview-driven iteration to validate real-world needs
Pragmatic product pivoting to fit into existing customer workflows and reduce adoption friction
Collaborative API/system integration approach with customer technical teams and internal engineers
Methodical production troubleshooting on AWS; identified root cause as ARM/amd64 Docker image mismatch with silent App Runner failures
Balances prototyping vs production quality using staged rigor (linters/tests for MVPs; staging + integration tests for production; explores formal methods when needed)
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