Machine Learning Engineer · Chicago, IL (Relocating to SF)
Innovating machines for more intelligent and secure experiences
About
It started with FRC robotics on Team 2338, training neural nets to run on a Raspberry Pi strapped to a robot. That led me deeper into machine learning: teaching 200+ students as a UMN teaching assistant, training DQN autoscalers as a CGI intern, and along the way falling for security — how systems fail, how models get fooled, and what they leak about their data (that Modern Cryptography course stuck with me).
Today I'm a founding quant engineer at Crebit, building probabilistic pricing models that serve live FX quotes — full lifecycle work, from wrangling the data to training and evaluating honestly to shipping to production. Based in Chicago; building solutions to any problem that interests me.
Work
Language models
A two-stage NLP pipeline that classifies character personality in film & TV scripts and rewrites it. LoRA fine-tuning cut trainable parameters by 90%, enabling Qwen2.5-32B on a single A100 with 4-bit quantization — 0.493 PAS / 0.838 BERTScore on personality transfer.
Forecasting
Deep-learning forecasts of crop futures prices from NOAA and USDA climate data — temperature anomalies, precipitation indices, drought severity. An attention-based multi-stream LSTM beat PatchTST baselines: 5.9 vs 5.1 Sharpe over a 2-year out-of-sample period.
Sequence models
An MLP + RNN drafting agent for professional League of Legends — trained on webscraped match data, it reaches 70% similarity with professional drafts from Worlds 2025.
Agents
The drafting system's next iteration: an agentic RAG layer where an LLM grounded in matchup data explains every pick in plain language. Explainability as a feature, not an afterthought.
Experience
Founding Quant Engineer
Software Engineering Intern
Undergraduate TA
B.S. Computer Science
Notes
Every few weeks I evaluate a new forecasting model for the crop futures project, and every time I re-learn the same lesson: the interesting bugs are in the backtest, not the model. These are the
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The stack behind this portfolio: an interactive neural-network canvas, hash identicons, markdown posts, and a Next.js static export on GitHub Pages.
Contact
ML, quant systems, security, or something in between. Email is fastest.