Staff ML Engineer focused on bringing AI from research to production — RAG, semantic search, ML infrastructure serving millions.
🌎 Currently traveling the world on sabbatical
🌁 SF Bay Area · June 2026 · Open to Staff+ IC roles
Most recently at Zendesk, where I led the team that launched AI Agents Essentials — RAG-powered customer support automation that scaled to 10k+ bot deployments resolving millions of customer queries. Also built semantic search infrastructure handling 2M+ daily queries.
Before that: Google (ad conversion ML), Blue Prism AI Labs (intelligent document processing, filed international patent), Caltech, McGill.
📵 Screenheads — Mobile web app that gamifies screen-free social gatherings. Put your phones down and compete.
🧗 Grip Gauntlet — Browser-based climbing training game with Bluetooth force sensor integration. Turn your hangboard workout into a ring-collection challenge.
🎓 RL-Starterpack — Tutorial materials from my RL for Information Retrieval talks at ECIR 2021 and Search Solutions 2020.
♟️ Guerilla — Deep learning chess engine built with my brother. CNN-based position evaluation + iterative deepening game tree search. ~1800 ELO.
- Semantic Search at Zendesk — Building vector search at scale
- IJCAI 2025 — Implicitly Aligning Humans and Autonomous Agents through Shared Task Abstractions
- Patent EP4290481A1 — One-shot data capture for semi-structured documents