Independent Contractor
Working at the intersection of large-scale data-pipeline engineering and AI evaluation — leading a small team building and operating data-quality and evaluation infrastructure for frontier AI and agent systems.
Available for freelance work.
DIA Associates
Analyst · New York, NYU.S. Global Commercial Services — a Fortune-500 payments firm:
• Forecasting model that lifted customer-spend targets ~30% YoY.
• Weekly/monthly reporting (leader performance, revenue, Covid-19) — a 100% visibility gain.
• Improved ~10% of accounts via Rolling-12 spend & margin analysis.
• LLM classifier (~85% accuracy) separating real engagement from ad-hoc tasks.
UVA · Biocomplexity Institute
Data Science for Public Good Fellow · Arlington, VA• Led 2 interns building a real-time NLP/LLM pipeline to classify innovation from news for the National Science Foundation. Learn more.
• Built an Arlington County park-access equity dashboard with the county government. Learn more.
Rewind — the Friday before DIA began (Aug 9, 2021) was the last day of this fellowship (Aug 8). The research years start here.
The World Bank
Data Publication Intern, DIME · Washington, DCCleaned, wrangled, and translated (Portuguese → English) country-governance survey data — 3 datasets, ~3,200 variables — in STATA, for analysis of irrigation-led development in an African country.
Georgetown · Massive Data Institute
Washington, DCBuilt an AWS Lambda OCR pipeline parsing DC housing-eviction court records into a structured dataset, supporting analysis of the socio-economic factors behind DC evictions — the applied-engineering counterpart to the published research below.
Georgetown University
Teaching Assistant — Intro to Data Science (Prof. Brodnax) · Washington, DCSupported instruction and mentored students for the graduate Introduction to Data Science course.
The World Resources Institute
Data Science Intern, Climate · Washington, DCCompiled disparate sources into a normalized dataset quantifying water use of ~500 thermoelectric plants across North America & Europe.
Georgetown University
Graduate Research Assistant to Prof. C. Christine Fair · Washington, DC• Co-authored a peer-reviewed paper in Small Wars & Insurgencies (2021): Did India's demonetization policy curb stone-pelting in Indian-administered Kashmir?
• Companion article at Gateway House (2021): Linking demonetization and stone-pelting.
• Created a stone-pelting time-series dataset for J&K — 608 Harvard Dataverse downloads.
• Tabulated Pakistani household-survey data in STATA (education vs. income).
Georgetown University
MS, Data Science for Public Policy · GPA 3.59/4McCourt School of Public Policy. Coursework spanning statistics, data science I–III, data visualization & GIS, massive data, and computational linguistics — with the merit-based Graduate School Financial Aid Award.
The communication & leadership thread continued here: teaching assistant (above), SAPRI Treasurer, and GradGov Senator.
Mumbai University
BE, Electronics & Telecommunication · GPA 6.42/10Where the communication & leadership roots took hold — ~50 Model UN conferences and two years (2017–2019) as a freelance communication-skills trainer at SkillSphere Education.
Hall of Fame (2018–19); built a Bluetooth-controlled Arduino medication dispenser; Debate Coordinator running 1,000+-participant conferences.
