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Resume

Resume

AI Engineer | Adversarial ML Researcher | Senior Software Engineer at Arctera

Download PDFUpdated September 2026

Summary

AI engineer with 5+ years across industry and research: GenAI assistants in production on Azure, real-time perception defenses on NVIDIA Jetson, and 12 peer-reviewed publications on adversarial robustness and perception security.

Experience

  1. A

    Senior Software Engineer

    Sep 2025 – Present

    Arctera

    • Built a GenAI troubleshooting assistant with Python and Azure OpenAI that lets SREs auto-diagnose failures, cutting mean time to root cause by 45%.
    • Added a natural-language interface over Elasticsearch and Grafana APIs for querying logs, improving incident response velocity by 35%.
    • Design and build backend services and automation on Azure that keep Arctera's data platforms reliable, secure and scalable for enterprise customers.
    PythonAzure OpenAIElasticsearchGrafanaAzure
  2. TT

    AI Researcher

    Nov 2023 – Aug 2025

    Tennessee Technological University · Cookeville, TN

    • Investigated adversarial machine learning vulnerabilities in Ouster LiDAR and camera sensor fusion, and engineered defenses that raised attack detection accuracy from 72% to 93%.
    • Developed hardware-efficient adversarial defenses for resource-constrained edge devices, a 21% improvement over existing baselines.
    • Published on laser, reflective, camouflage and GPS-spoofing attacks against autonomous-vehicle perception in IEEE Access, ISCAS, SoutheastCon and ISVLSI.
    PyTorchTensorRTONNXNVIDIA JetsonROSCARLA
  3. D

    Senior Software Engineer

    Sep 2021 – Nov 2023

    Deloitte

    • Built a distributed Python and Apache Spark ETL pipeline that ingested 10M+ PPP loans, validated schemas and loaded the data into CortexAI.
    • Deployed containerized security microservices on AKS and Docker, and engineered high-performance ASP.NET backends, resolving 50+ production bugs.
    PythonApache SparkAKSDockerASP.NET
  4. PS

    Software Engineer

    Apr 2021 – Sep 2021

    Protech Solutions

    • Integrated a secure payment API with tokenized security into a high-traffic C#/ASP.NET system.
    • Optimized backend data flow, cutting transaction processing latency by more than 50%.
    C#ASP.NET
  5. TT

    Undergraduate Student Researcher

    Jan 2019 – May 2020

    Tennessee Technological University · Cookeville, TN

    • Architected and deployed a secure, decentralized electronic health records platform using Docker containers and an IPFS cluster.
    • Engineered backend features with cryptography-based policy controls, contributing to a co-authored IEEE CBMS 2020 paper.
    DockerIPFSCryptography

Education

  1. TT

    M.S. in Computer Engineering (AI)

    2023 – Dec 2025

    Tennessee Technological University · Cookeville, TN

    • Advisor: Dr. Syed Rafay Hasan
  2. TT

    B.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering

    2017 – 2020

    Tennessee Technological University · Cookeville, TN