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Robert Young

Development
Texas, United States

Skills

Machine Learning (ML)

About

Robert Young's skills align with IT R&D Professionals (Information and Communication Technology). Robert also has skills associated with Programmers (Information and Communication Technology). Robert Young has 11 years of work experience.
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Work Experience

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Photon
August 2023 - March 2024
  • Fine tuned open source LLMs(Llama2, BERT) using Transformers, PyTorch, AWS • Neuron, AWS Sagemaker and improved low-latency and high-throughput by 20%. Architected AWS eco-system for highly efficient natural language search engine for • monitoring, logging, ML endpoints with API design and implementation. Improved NER, Intent classification and other NLP tasks using BERT, Attention • mechanism with custom data preparation. Built ETL pipelines using Databricks and AWS Glue with data engineering team and • collected 10000+ annotated data for ML model training. Collaborated with cross-functional teams with AWS Codecommit(Git), Jira, Confluence • and so on. Maintained the production lifecycle with LaunchDarkly to enhance the feature release • efficiency to twice a week. Benchmarked candidate pipelines to evaluate metrics and handled trade-offs with A/B • testing and experiments.

Machine Learning Engineer

VISARTECH
February 2015 - August 2023
  • Designed end-to-end surveillance and risk analysis system with 200+ CCTV camera • integration in production in real-time data processing using AWS. Created custom dataset using langchain, python, openai, claude with self-instruct and • prompt-evolving method. Fine-tuned LLMs to building chatbot style recommendation system. Built a e2e testing • and unit testing with cypress and Pytest for data science work with analytics and let the test coverage up to 85%. Developed CV+NLP based document parsing platform based on AWS's serveless • solutions (lambda, SNS, api gateway etc) and AI services (Rekognition, Forecast, Comprehend) with custom model building with Sagemaker + model registry + AKS to create a horizontal scalable machine learning deployment. Architected the AWS architecture from conceptual design to AWS component design • with high security & privacy requirements, e2e data flow, and multi-tenant architecture. Mentored the team members with clarifying the onboarding process and co-authored • achievements by taking part in DevOps and development collaboration.

Software Engineer

Finoit
April 2013 - February 2015
  • Optimized SaaS solution with UI/UX research for e-commerce platform. • Collaborated with cross functional teams. • Built data annotation platform for AI project building for object detection and object • segmentation projects for industrial domain. Built custom API endpoints with python and deployed with custom CI/CD method.

Education

University of Houston

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
September 2009 - May 2013