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Applied AI

AI Enthusiast

From R Programming at Johns Hopkins to ML fraud detection at Amazon to bringing AI into automotive reconditioning at Carvana — pragmatic, measurable, and human-centered.

By the numbers

A snapshot of AI/ML work at production scale.

100k
TPS ML/SOA pipeline (Amazon)
14
FTE research & applied-science team
12+
Marketplaces, ML-monitored
+18%
YoY automated enforcement

100k+ TPS, in production

Real ML work, at real scale, against real adversaries.

"Contributed to the design of a services-oriented architecture for the collection and identification of risky sellers operating at over 100k transactions per second. Product-managed a 14-FTE research and applied-science team through the creation, onboarding, and deployment of risk-detection signals stored in a graph database to detect and enforce multiple fraud rules and ML models."

— Amazon, Worldwide Seller Fraud Detection

Applied AI work

Where AI/ML met a real business problem.

Carvana

AI in automotive reconditioning

Introduced ML models and AI tooling into an industry that had been running on '90s-era processes — applied to inspection, routing, and operations across a 42-site reconditioning network.

Amazon

Worldwide fraud detection

Multiple fraud rules and ML models deployed across 12+ marketplaces, with risk signals stored in a graph database. Automated enforcement actions grew 18% YoY.

Amazon

Visual seller-relationship app

Worldwide app to visually identify seller relationships among bad actors. Investigations per hour rose 87% — a force multiplier for the human analysts in the loop.

Amazon

Operations & reporting BI

Department-level reporting consolidating dozens of metrics into a single visualization deck — task time reduced 35%.

InEight

HD Project Intelligence

Self-service BI cloud platform for industrial sectors — analytics, third-party tech acquisition, and a unique multi-segment business model.

Personal

Coding alongside AI, daily

Working hands-on with Claude Code, Roo, Cline, and ChatGPT to ship internal tooling, prototypes, and this very site — building intuition for where AI helps and where it doesn't.

AI / ML / Data stack

What's on my desk today.

Claude Code
Claude Design
ChatGPT
Roo
Cline
Snowflake
R Programming
ML model PM
Graph databases
Rules engines
Birst BI
AWS

AI capabilities — strength & depth

Self-assessed across the day-to-day stack.

PM for ML models in production
Deep
Coding with AI assistants
Deep
Rules + ML hybrid systems
Deep
Data platforms (Snowflake)
Strong
Graph databases & risk signals
Strong
R & statistical modeling
Working

Philosophy

How I think about applying AI to real product problems.

Principle

Pragmatic over flashy

The right answer is often a rules engine plus a small model — not the largest model that fits the GPU budget. Solve the business problem first.

Principle

Measurable outcomes

Every AI feature should ship with a metric attached: enforcement actions per hour, investigations per analyst, NPS, time-to-decision. If you can't measure it, you can't improve it.

Principle

Human in the loop

The 87% lift came from a tool that made human investigators faster — not one that replaced them. The best AI products augment expert judgement.