MJ

AI Engineer at DevHawk AIAtlanta, GA

I build AI agents that ship real software, and the tests that prove they work.

Bachelors in Artificial Intelligence from Purdue (2026). 2+ years building cloud, data-heavy systems on Google Cloud. Founding a local-first operating system for AI agents on my own time.

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I build AI systems, then I build the tests that prove whether they actually work.

BUILD stage 1 of 4 · design the system

Things I built, with the numbers they earned.

Open any case file. The first one is live: it pulls this week's forecast straight from the simulator.

Race intelligence · personal project

Flat Out F1

A lap-by-lap F1 race simulator that runs every Grand Prix 4,000,000 times: tyre wear, pit strategy, safety cars, overtakes and reliability. Every prediction is scored against the result in a walk-forward backtest.

4M
sims per race
60
Grands Prix audited
-12%
error vs grid baseline

Latest forecast loads when this card is on screen.

    • Python
    • NumPy
    • LightGBM
    • FastF1
    • GSAP
    • Playwright
    Open case file
    • Pace model learns fuel- and tyre-corrected race pace from 60 audited Grands Prix (2024-2026), with calibrated uncertainty.
    • Predicts tyre strategy and pit windows, plus car-adjusted driver and constructor ratings.
    • Beats the "finish where you start" baseline by 12% on ranked probability score, retrained before every race.

    Five lights, then lights out. How quick are you off the line?

    Skip the test, open f1.h

    Founder · in stealth

    A local-first OS for AI agents

    An operating system for AI agents that puts your own machine first. Agent workloads run on-device by default, and when local resources run short it bursts to rented cloud GPU compute.

    • AI agents
    • Local-first
    • On-device compute
    • Cloud GPU bursting
    Open case file
    • Local-first: agent workloads run on-device by default.
    • Bursts seamlessly to rented cloud GPU compute when local resources are constrained.
    • I own the system architecture and implementation.

    Production forecasting · Caterpillar

    Supply chain forecasting

    Temporal Fusion Transformer and TimesFM models forecasting supplier demand across 1,500+ suppliers, built under production schema and data-quality constraints.

    13.4%
    WAPE on held-out data
    1,500+
    suppliers
    • PyTorch Forecasting
    • Temporal Fusion Transformer
    • TimesFM
    • Python
    • pandas
    Open case file
    • Owned the pipeline end to end: ingestion, feature construction, training, held-out validation and error analysis.
    • Integrated procurement and shipment data with strict no-future-leakage evaluation.
    • Reached 13.4% WAPE on held-out data.

    Network analytics · Caterpillar

    Network security analytics

    A high-throughput network traffic analysis platform with ML-based flow classification, supporting WAN capacity planning and anomaly detection for Caterpillar's IT org.

    15M+
    flow records per minute
    • Cloud Datastore
    • Python
    • Grafana
    • LDAP
    Open case file
    • Built on Google Cloud Datastore with ML-based flow classification.
    • Grafana dashboards monitoring 15M+ network flow records per minute in real time.
    • LDAP-based authentication for role-aware access to analytics and WAN planning tools.

    Security + embedded ML · Avolta

    Automotive intrusion detection

    Python software, ML models and intrusion detection systems running on Raspberry Pi hardware for automotive security.

    • Python
    • IDS
    • SIEM
    • Raspberry Pi
    • Linux
    Open case file
    • IDS with SIEM tooling for security event triage.
    • Lightweight models deployed on Raspbian for on-device inference.

    BREAK stage 2 of 4 · attack it before anyone else does

    Then I try to break what I built.

    benchmarks

    Tests for frontier models

    At Handshake I wrote software-engineering benchmark problems, reference solutions and automated judge tests that measure how well frontier models code, and scored model output for correctness, instruction-following, factuality and safety.

    no future leakage

    Forecasts that can't cheat

    Supplier forecasts were evaluated on held-out data with strict no-future-leakage rules. The F1 simulator is scored against every real result in a walk-forward backtest, retrained before each race.

    attack surface

    Security from the inside

    Intrusion detection with SIEM tooling on embedded hardware at Avolta, anomaly detection on Caterpillar's network traffic, and the Google Cybersecurity Professional Certificate.

    MEASURE stage 3 of 4 · benchmark it against reality

    The results, as a test run.

    $ pytest career/ -v
    1. test_supplier_forecast_wape13.4%TFT + TimesFM across 1,500+ suppliers, held-out data
    2. test_network_flows_monitored15M+/minGrafana + Cloud Datastore, in real time
    3. test_race_sims_per_grand_prix4,000,000Flat Out F1 Monte Carlo, live on f1.h
    4. test_error_vs_grid_baseline-12%ranked probability score, walk-forward backtest
    5. test_research_team_selection<10 of 100+applicants selected for the Purdue CS research team
    6. test_years_on_google_cloud2+cloud, data-intensive systems

    6 passed, 0 failed

    I define how success gets measured early, then let those numbers drive the work.

    SHIP stage 4 of 4 · put it in front of people

    Where it shipped: eight roles, often two at once.

    Each bar is a role. Overlapping bars ran at the same time.

    Oct 2026 - PresentAI Engineer CurrentDevHawk AIAI agents for software delivery
    • Build AI agents and LLM-powered tooling that take software work from idea to shipped code.
    Aug 2026 - PresentFounder CurrentStealth startup · United StatesAgent OS local-first, cloud GPU burst
    • Building a local-first operating system for AI agents that runs agent workloads on-device by default and bursts to rented cloud GPU compute when local resources are constrained.
    • Own the system architecture and implementation.
    May 2026 - Oct 2026AI & Machine Learning Researcher (Contract)Handshake · RemoteFrontier model coding benchmarks
    • Authored advanced software-engineering benchmark problems, reference solutions and automated judge test cases used to measure the coding capability of frontier models for leading AI labs.
    • Evaluated frontier LLM and multimodal model outputs against structured rubrics covering correctness, instruction-following, factuality and safety, and wrote evaluations used in downstream model assessment.
    May 2026 - Aug 2026AI ResearcherPurdue University CS Dept. · West Lafayette, IN<10 of 100+ selected for the research team
    • Selected as one of fewer than 10 students from 100+ applicants for an interdisciplinary research team advised by Dr. Qinglan Ding and Dr. Tianyi Zhang.
    • Designed and implemented the LLM orchestration layer of a personalized health chatbot for adults managing cardiovascular and metabolic risk: component interfaces, control flow and multi-step conversational workflows.
    • Architected a RAG pipeline with persona-aware context assembly that produces grounded, citation-traceable responses, and defined metrics for retrieval accuracy, grounding and unsupported-claim rate.
    Aug 2025 - May 2026Data Science Researcher, Supply Chain ForecastingCaterpillar Inc. (The Data Mine) · West Lafayette, IN13.4% WAPE across 1,500+ suppliers
    • Developed and fine-tuned Temporal Fusion Transformer and TimesFM models forecasting demand across 1,500+ suppliers, reaching 13.4% WAPE on held-out data.
    • Owned the end-to-end pipeline (ingestion, feature construction, training, held-out validation, error analysis), integrating procurement and shipment data under production schema and data-quality constraints.
    Jan 2025 - May 2025Data Science Researcher, Network Security AnalyticsCaterpillar Inc. (The Data Mine) · West Lafayette, IN15M+/min network flows monitored
    • Engineered a high-throughput network traffic analysis platform on Google Cloud Datastore with ML-based flow classification, supporting WAN capacity planning and anomaly detection.
    • Designed and deployed Grafana dashboards monitoring 15M+ network flow records per minute in real time, improving incident response.
    • Implemented LDAP-based authentication for secure, role-aware access to internal network analytics and WAN planning tools.
    Aug 2024 - Dec 2024Data Science Researcher, Agricultural ForecastingBASF (The Data Mine) · West Lafayette, IN3 states corn + soybean forecasts
    • Built geospatial ML models to predict corn and soybean production across Indiana, Iowa and Illinois.
    • Built scalable ETL pipelines integrating multi-source agricultural and remote-sensing data.
    Dec 2023 - Jun 2024Machine Learning InternAvolta, Inc. · RemoteIDS + SIEM automotive intrusion detection
    • Built Python software, ML models and intrusion detection systems (IDS) with SIEM tooling on Raspberry Pi / Raspbian hardware for automotive security.

    Education and certificates

    • Bachelors in Artificial IntelligencePurdue University · 2026
    • Google AI Professional CertificateGoogle Career Certificates · May 2026
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    • Google Cybersecurity Professional CertificateGoogle Career Certificates · June 2023
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    • AI Agent FundamentalsCertificate
    • AI FundamentalsCertificate

    Still in the queue: the bucket list

    Four things I plan to have done, each of which scares me a little.

    1. Stand on the three highest points on Earth.
    2. Race a GT3 car around the Nürburgring Nordschleife.
    3. Swim, bike and run 226 km in a single day.
    4. Write, play, produce, mix and master a whole album.
    See the bucket list

    TOOLS what I reach for

    Skills, with proof attached.

    Skills with a dot were used in a project above. Tap one to see where.

    AI coding & evaluation

    • AI coding agents
    • Frontier-model benchmarks
    • Automated judge tests
    • Adversarial test design
    • Rubric-based evaluation
    • LLM orchestration
    • RAG
    • LLM benchmarking against baselines
    • Persona-based agent simulation
    • Replay evaluation on past runs
    • Synthetic evaluation sets

    AI agents & automation

    • Multi-agent design with Claude
    • Scheduled autonomous workflows
    • Human-in-the-loop approval gates
    • Agent guardrails (test gates, run locking)
    • Official-source verification
    • Prompt & tool design
    • Agent connectors (email, phone alerts)
    • Monitoring & observability
    • Alerting with acknowledgement
    • Spec, build, review agent pipelines
    • Headless coding agents (Claude Code)
    • Agent skills & lifecycle hooks
    • Prompt-injection guardrails
    • LLM output safety checks
    • Local LLM serving (Ollama)
    • Context persistence across sessions
    • Meeting-transcript-to-task automation

    Languages & cloud

    • Python
    • JavaScript / TypeScript
    • SQL
    • C
    • Bash
    • Node.js
    • Google Cloud Platform
    • Cloud Datastore
    • LDAP
    • Grafana
    • Linux
    • Git
    • DigitalOcean App Platform
    • Twilio SMS
    • AWS SMS (10DLC registration)
    • EHR integration (FHIR)
    • Insurance eligibility APIs (X12 270/271)

    ML & statistics

    • PyTorch
    • TensorFlow / Keras
    • scikit-learn
    • XGBoost
    • LightGBM
    • Ridge regression
    • Monte Carlo simulation
    • Probabilistic forecasting & calibration
    • RPS, log loss, Brier score
    • Walk-forward backtesting
    • Leakage testing
    • Bootstrap confidence intervals
    • Multiple-comparison correction
    • Champion/challenger experiments
    • Radar nowcasting (optical flow)
    • IDS
    • SIEM
    • Network traffic analysis
    • Text classification (logistic regression)
    • N-gram feature engineering
    • K-means clustering
    • PII redaction

    Data engineering

    • pandas
    • NumPy
    • SciPy
    • ETL pipelines
    • API data pipelines (FastF1, Open-Meteo, RainViewer, OpenStreetMap)
    • Parquet
    • Immutable versioned outputs
    • Schema & contract validation
    • Web scraping with cross-source validation
    • Multiprocessing

    Frontend, UI/UX & motion

    • React
    • Vite
    • Tailwind CSS
    • Vanilla JavaScript (ES modules)
    • Framer Motion
    • GSAP (ScrollTrigger)
    • Lenis smooth scroll
    • Three.js
    • WebGL / GLSL shaders
    • Canvas 2D
    • SVG animation & data viz
    • Interactive maps
    • 3D asset pipeline (Blender scripting, glTF)
    • Web Audio API
    • Responsive design
    • Accessibility & reduced motion
    • Design systems
    • Web performance
    • Rapid clickable prototyping
    • Colour-contrast checks

    Software engineering

    • Automated testing (unit, contract, reproducibility)
    • Playwright browser automation
    • FFmpeg
    • Command-line tooling
    • GitHub Pages deployment
    • Technical writing (experiment logs, runbooks)
    • TypeScript monorepos (pnpm workspaces)
    • Vitest, node:test & jsdom
    • Fail-first regression tests
    • Merge quality gates
    • Git worktrees
    • Code review & convention audits
    • Stacked pull requests
    • Headless Chrome end-to-end testing
    • Secrets management (Infisical, least privilege)
    • Privacy-aware design for regulated data
    • HIPAA security checklist reviews
    • Prototype review rounds with clients
    • Agile delivery (Linear, Asana)

    NEXT your move

    Building something with AI agents? I'd like to hear about it.

    Reach out about software engineering roles, AI coding-agent tooling, model evaluation, or what I'm building in stealth.

    • Atlanta, GA
    • US citizen
    • Open to hybrid on-site