Skills
Technical: Generative AI / JavaScript & TypeScript / Python / Cloud Computing / MongoDB
Professional: Software Development / Technical Writing / Open Source / Public Speaking
Professional Experience
Senior AI Engineer, MongoDB | Aug 2023 - Present | New York, NY
- Lead development of the MongoDB AI Assistant, an AI agent API that powers MongoDB’s public-facing generative AI experiences. Uses retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to improve response quality. Includes robust evals and monitoring. Serves over 150K queries/week.
- Lead LLM benchmarking on MongoDB topics (code generation, multiple choice, question/answer)
- Partner with foundation model developers to create prompt/completion and code generation reinforcement learning datasets, enhancing LLM performance for MongoDB-related tasks.
- Planned and oversaw red teaming exercise with over 50 participants to evaluate AI Assistant response quality. Distilled feedback into actionable changes to improve chatbot response quality.
- Contributed three chapters to the book Building AI-Intensive Python Applications
Education Engineer, MongoDB | Sep 2021 - Aug 2023 | New York, NY
Technical Writing & Web Development, Independent | Jul 2020 - present | Remote
- Revamped ESLint documentation website (project overview)
- Migrated 5 WordPress sites to GCP for 10x performance improvement and enhanced security
Technical Writer, TrueAccord | Nov 2020 - Sep 2021 | Remote
- Led creation and maintenance of ~35,000 word manual for financial services integration platform
- Designed and built public documentation hub for an API using OpenAPI (Redoc) and Docusaurus
- Collaborated with stakeholders across the organization to create documentation for PCI DSS audit
Market Development Lead, Mavatar Technologies | Mar 2019 - Jan 2020 | Remote
- Directed content creation, including two WordPress sites, eBook, email marketing, blog posts
- Created internal written and video technical documentation to facilitate onboarding team members
Founder & Chief Content Creator, PerlWrite | Dec 2017 - Jan 2020 | Remote
- Created digital content for startups, including blog posts, email marketing, websites and sales copy
- Collaborated with founders and executive teams to translate vision into content
Additional Experience: Taught English as a second language in Seoul, South Korea and Cuenca, Ecuador
Education
App Academy, Full stack software development bootcamp | Feb 2020 - Aug 2020 | Remote
Emory University, BA of Mathematics & Political Science | GPA: 3.86/4.0 | Spring 2016 | Atlanta, GA
Additional Info
Public Speaking: Unit Test the Docs, May 2022 | Building the MongoDB Docs AI Chatbot, Dec 2023 | MongoDB Chatbot Framework, Mar 2024 | The Emerging Generative AI Content Ecosystem, Apr 2024 | Knowledge Is the New Uranium, June 2024
Languages: English (native) / Spanish (conversational) / Brazilian Portuguese (conversational)
Interests: international travel / HIIT / hot yoga / reading / writing / premium drama miniseries