AI Engineer
Institutional Research & Analytics, CSULB
- Designed and shipped the full stack platform that replaced manual transcript review: FastAPI microservices, a Next.js and TypeScript front end, Microsoft SSO with role based access control, and a normalised PostgreSQL schema on Cloud SQL, deployed to Cloud Run through GitLab CI/CD with pytest gates.
- Built the AI layer: custom trained Google Document AI processors behind a multi agent LLM validation service (LangChain, CrewAI) and a rules engine that issues application decisions, on distributed asynchronous document processing.
- Engineered Python, SQL and PySpark ETL pipelines on Databricks, orchestrated with Airflow and governed in Unity Catalog, and tuned the database with indexing and partitioning across 500,000+ applicant records, reducing reporting time 40 percent.
- Developed an XGBoost model forecasting admission yield on 500,000+ records with Optuna tuning, cross validation, SHAP explainability and MLflow tracking, served to leadership in Tableau.
- Led the delivery track as technical point of contact: user research, PRDs and user stories, backlog prioritisation in Jira, Agile ceremonies, weekly status reporting, and live demonstrations to leadership, peer universities and industry partners.
40%less analyst time on recurring reports
