work

Professional Work

Real-world vision systems — deployed in stores, cars, and aircraft. Every project here runs in production, not in a notebook.

career journey

Optimizing since 2016

A career is gradient descent: start with high loss and never stop optimizing. But learning isn't linear — some epochs plateau, some fall off a cliff.

loss 2.31 · 2016 Purdue University Master's — peak of the curve
loss 1.20 · 5 yrs Aptiv Deep Learning Engineer Gesture, drowsiness & cognitive load shippedCES '19 & '21 · first patent granted
loss 0.95 · 1 yr Ford Research Scientist Facial recognition, DMS & BlueCruise research
loss 0.38 · 8 mo Rotor AI Senior Perception Engineer Sprayhawk perception at startup pace
loss 0.12 · 3 yrs Sam's Club Technical Lead — Computer Vision Exit vision scaled 70 → 600 clubsCashier-less next — largest camera fleet per store still descending…

deployments

What shipped along the way