AI/ML engineer and LLM evaluation specialist in the Bay Area. Nine years
in financial services under FINRA and SEC regulatory oversight before
pivoting to data science and machine learning. The finance career taught
systems thinking under regulatory pressure. The AI work is where that
thinking goes when the constraints are open-ended.
At Scale AI / Outlier (August 2024 - April 2025), earned Oracle Tier and
Quality Analyst designation across twelve RLHF training projects spanning
process-supervised code reasoning, multi-turn instruction following,
multimodal visual grounding, tool-use accuracy, and adversarial prompt
design. Worked across data science, Python engineering, generalist
reasoning, and finance domain tracks. Reviewed and corrected peer
annotations, built evaluation rubrics from scratch, and caught reward
hacking in quality review. This work plausibly contributed to improvements
across frontier models from multiple labs including OpenAI, Anthropic,
Google DeepMind, Meta, and Microsoft.
Data science foundation from BrainStation (Sep 2023 - May 2024) and Google
Data Analytics Professional Certificate. Won first place in the
Google-sponsored capstone hackathon (Google Companion, April 2024),
building a geospatial pedestrian safety scoring model from 1.9M+ Chicago
crime records. Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate and Azure
Data Scientist Associate. PCEP certified in Python fundamentals.
Currently rebuilding past projects to production quality while developing
new AI systems. Operates agentic orchestration across multiple platforms
including OpenAI Codex, Hermes Agent, and previously OpenClaw, for
multi-agent coding workflows, knowledge management, and automated
operations.
FINRA licensed (Series 7, 66, SIE). WSET Level 2 wine certified. Bilingual
English and Mandarin. UC Berkeley BA in American Studies.