EXPERIENCE / Senior Applied AI / ML Engineer

Experience.

Seven-plus years across scientific computing, healthcare prediction, analytics products, private document intelligence, and production agentic AI.

Role chronology

A career in applied engineering.

From biomedical research to healthcare products and production AI.

012026 — present
MetLife via Bizintex

Applied AI Engineer Consultant

Production claims and document agents with typed workflow state, validation, exception routing, evaluation, observability, and explicit human authority.

  • ≈90% lower document-handling effort in a measured workstream
  • ≈50% shorter time-to-payable in a supported workstream
022023 — 2025
Inland Empire Health Plan via Infowave

Lead DS/ML Engineer Consultant

Predictive healthcare ML, local OCR/RAG, HEDIS evidence extraction, transportation FWA analytics, interoperability, MLOps, and operational reporting.

  • 7K-case backlog cleared
  • ≈90% review-time reduction
  • 20% automated measure-closure improvement
  • 18% transportation waste reduction
032021 — 2023
Hexplora Predictive Analytics

Lead Data Scientist / Product

Built a 0-to-1 healthcare analytics platform across nine programs, connecting risk models, data delivery, embedded analytics, and care-manager workflows.

  • $500K new revenue supported
  • ≈$3M client P4P impact supported
  • ≈50% faster model-deployment cycles
042020 — 2021
CommonSpirit Health · Health New England via Infowave

Data and analytics engagements

Hospital operations and provider-data analytics, validation, reporting, and workflow automation.

  • Analytics spanning 142 hospitals
  • 100K+ provider records validated
  • 60% lower manual provider-review effort
052020 — 2021
Hexplora Healthcare Analytics

Data Scientist

Explainable readmission modeling, healthcare ETL and automation, and the early product foundation that later scaled across programs.

  • Predictive modeling moved into operational analytics
  • Reusable product and delivery patterns established
06Scientific foundation
University of Chicago · AbbVie

Biomedical informatics and research computing

Clinical signals, genomics, scientific computing, statistical modeling, and research communication established the evidence discipline behind later systems.

  • M.S. Biomedical Informatics
  • Clinical sensor and genomics work
  • Public-health modeling training

Methods by era

How the work evolved.

Each stage added a new layer without erasing the statistical and data foundations beneath it.

Scientific foundations

Biomedical informatics and scientific computing

Clinical signals, genomics, research computing, and statistical reasoning established the habit of keeping lineage and assumptions visible.

  • Python
  • R
  • statistics
  • signal analysis
  • scientific visualization
Prediction

Predictive healthcare and operational analytics

Readmission, utilization, hospital operations, and provider-data work connected model quality to the workflows that consume it.

  • XGBoost
  • calibration
  • feature engineering
  • SQL
  • operational analytics
Product + MLOps

A 0-to-1 healthcare analytics platform

Risk models, data pipelines, embedded reporting, and care-manager workflows became one reusable product across nine healthcare programs.

  • risk stratification
  • MLOps
  • Power BI Embedded
  • Azure
  • product leadership
Document intelligence

Predictive ML, quality evidence, FWA, and local AI

Local OCR/RAG, healthcare quality evidence, predictive models, transportation anomaly review, and MLOps operated inside a payer data boundary.

  • local inference
  • OCR
  • RAG
  • FHIR/HL7
  • model monitoring
  • human review
Production agentic AI

Claims automation with bounded authority

Document and claims workflows combine typed state, tools, deterministic controls, exception routes, evaluation, and trace telemetry.

  • agent graphs
  • typed contracts
  • evaluation
  • observability
  • reviewer authority

Education

M.S., Biomedical Informatics — University of Chicago, 2019

Summer School, Public Health Modeling — Yale University, 2019

B.Tech., Computer Science & Engineering — SRM University, 2018

Credentials

AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer — Associate

Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900)

Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst (PL-300)

Leadership pattern

Translate between operations, domain experts, data, models, platforms, and reviewers.

Make uncertainty, ownership, and release evidence explicit before scale.