Experience

AI/ML Cybersecurity Researcher

Parsons, Cromulence | Sept 2024 – Dec 2025

  • Researched and developed LLM-based systems for specialized government applications in air-gapped environments
  • Designed and curated large-scale proprietary datasets for pretraining, fine-tuning, and reinforcement learning workflows
  • Optimized model inference and training pipelines for resource-constrained deployments
  • Delivered measurable, customer-facing results that secured sustained operational funding

PyTorch HuggingFace Transformers PEFT / LoRA vLLM DeepSpeed DDP / FSDP GRPO MLflow LM Eval KV-cache Optimization Pandas cuDF PyArrow Parquet Python C

Cybersecurity Research Engineering Co-op

Peraton Labs | Jan 2023 – Dec 2023

  • Contributed to the design, programming, and implementation of a novel, bespoke high-speed Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS) using C, Bash, ELK Stack, Kibana, and Elasticsearch, enabling microsecond-level packet-timing fingerprinting
  • Created a mock network attack in CORE exploiting RIPv2 and IPsec routing protocols, and demonstrated a following mitigation by implementing hash table caching in C for the NIDS

C Bash ELK Stack Kibana Elasticsearch

Research Assistant

Purdue University | Jan 2022 – June 2022

  • Coordinated directly with university and customer-facing staff to create a forensic investigation tool for compiling, analyzing, and warehousing intelligence data using .NET and C#, enabling TB-scale IoT intelligence organization for customers and addressing scalability limits of legacy forensic tooling
  • Designed backend architecture leveraging Docker, ElasticSearch, and PostgreSQL to fit scalability and performance standards

C# .NET Docker PostgreSQL Elasticsearch

Engineering Intern

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories | July 2020 – August 2020

  • Designed and presented a project management dashboard leveraging Denodo for data virtualization across multiple silos and Tableau for executive analytics and visualization, providing a single pane-of-glass for cross-program visibility and portfolio-level decision-making
  • Dashboard presented to senior executive staff to support enterprise-level decisions on $500,000,000 worth of funding

Denodo Tableau