What I'm Doing Now

A snapshot of my current focus and activities

Last updated: November 16, 2025

Current Work

  • →Building production-ready MLOps pipelines at Eastern Washington University
  • →Teaching Assistant for CSCD 211 (Object-Oriented Programming) - helping students master Java and OOP concepts
  • →Contributing to open-source AI/ML projects on GitHub

Learning

  • →Advanced MLOps - Kubernetes, model monitoring, and distributed training
  • →LLM Fine-tuning - Exploring LoRA, QLoRA, and PEFT techniques
  • →System Design - Building scalable distributed systems
  • →Rust - For high-performance systems programming

Side Projects

  • →Research Paper Summarizer - AI tool to extract key insights from academic papers
  • →Developer Portfolio - This website! Building with Next.js 14, Framer Motion, and Tailwind CSS
  • →AI Code Reviewer - Automated PR review system using LLMs

Currently Reading

  • 📖
    Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann
  • 📖
    The Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book by Andriy Burkov
  • 📄
    Attention Is All You Need - Re-reading the Transformer paper

2025 Goals

  • 🎯Publish research paper at top-tier ML conference (NeurIPS, ICML, or ICLR)
  • 🎯Contribute to 3+ major open-source ML projects
  • 🎯Land ML Engineer internship at top tech company
  • 🎯Master Kubernetes and cloud-native ML deployment
  • 🎯Build and deploy 5 production ML systems

Life & Hobbies

  • ☕Exploring coffee shops in Cheney and trying different brewing methods
  • 📸Photography - capturing moments at university events as VP of Photography Club
  • 🎮Playing strategy games and competitive programming challenges
  • 🏃Staying active with evening runs around campus

What is a /now page? It's a regularly updated page that tells you what I'm focused on right now. Inspired by Derek Sivers.