I manage the Biomechanics Modeling team at Align Technology and have 10+ years of experience building research software and production systems. I enjoy working across model development, validation, and the software needed to make research useful.
Built and launched a secure internal RAG platform for domain-specific knowledge and workflows.
Permission-aware retrieval and secure vector indexing
Custom reranking, filtering, and source-grounded citations
Retrieval-quality metrics and evaluation datasets
Agentic ingestion and task-specific workflows
RAGEmbeddingsVector searchRerankingAgents
032025–Present
LLM and vision systems
Fine-tuning, inference, and custom harnesses
Fine-tuned task-specific LLMs and VLMs for ranking, classification, structured extraction, and multimodal analysis. Built evaluation datasets, managed local GPU inference with vLLM, and created custom harnesses for Claude Code and OpenAI Codex.
LLMVLMFine-tuningvLLMEvaluation
042026
Representation learning
Geometry and graph-based latent embeddings
Built embeddings for clinical geometry and treatment data to support similarity search, clustering, classification, and prediction.
Geometric MLGraph embeddingsRetrievalClustering
052024
Simulation infrastructure · Align Technology
Distributed simulation platform
Built distributed simulation pipelines on GPU clusters for large-scale analysis and ML training-data generation.
Researched mesh-independent contact methods for immersed-boundary FEA and implemented analytical geometry for contact detection and stick-slip behavior in OnSimulation.
Built and operated software for online and retail sales, inventory, fulfillment, shipping, notifications, and advertising for a multi-million-dollar business.
Full stackAutomationOperations
Public projects
Interactive demos
Browser-based software for machine learning, mechanics, controls, and applied mathematics.
Lead a distributed R&D team developing patient-specific prediction models, biomechanics simulations, and optimization methods. Set technical strategy and model-validation standards across research, clinical, software, and regulatory teams.
2025—Jan 2026
R&D Team Lead, Simulation & Modeling
Align Technology
Led treatment-prediction, shape-optimization, classification, and production-integration work. Built and launched the internal RAG platform.
2023—2025
R&D Engineer III, Simulation & Modeling
Align Technology
Designed transformer models, embeddings, and classifiers for patient-specific treatment data and built distributed simulation pipelines for ML training-data generation.
2022—2023
R&D Engineer II, Simulation & Modeling
Align Technology
Built patient-specific simulation methods, biomechanics metrics, and automated analyses for orthodontic treatment design.
2020—2022
Graduate Research Assistant
University of Florida
Researched nonlinear frictional contact in FEA and contributed analytical geometry methods to the OnSimulation codebase.
2015—2023
Senior Developer
Catch The Fever
Built and automated an e-commerce platform supporting multi-million-dollar revenue, fulfillment, shipping, and ad operations.
Technical range
Core technical areas
Skills used across research prototypes, validated models, and production systems.
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Machine learning
PyTorch, JAX, TensorFlow, transformers, geometric deep learning, graph embeddings, interpretability, and model validation
My training is in aerospace engineering, numerical methods, solid mechanics, CFD, and controls. I now apply that foundation to biomedical machine learning, geometry-based models, RAG, agents, and scientific software.
I enjoy work where there is a real system to understand: building the model, finding its failure modes, validating it, and writing the software around it. Personal projects usually involve browser-based simulations, Rust, embedded systems, robotics, 3D printing, or photography.
EducationM.S. Aerospace Engineering
University of Florida · 2022 · Custom FEA, CFD, reduced-order modeling, nonlinear mechanics, and uncertainty methods
