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Case studies

Longer write-ups of work done in a job: what the system was, which parts I built or maintained, the decisions, and how results were measured.

Staples · AI Engineer Intern · Jan–Jul 2026

The retrieval and data layers under an agentic e-commerce system

Retail / E-commerce

Vector Search indexes and a Neo4j product graph the agent queried, the daily Snowflake-to-Delta path feeding them, and the SKU enrichment that made filtering possible.

~4 h → 90 minbatch tagging on Ray

Cognida.ai · Software/AI Developer · 2022–2024

Finding subrogation cases a rule engine missed

Insurance

Unsupervised anomaly detection over millions of health insurance claims, from PySpark features to a distance-based score that went to production.

+8%new cases flagged

Personal project · Aug 2026

One scheduling problem, solved six ways and cross-checked

Optimization

MILP, greedy, simulated annealing, tabu search, a genetic algorithm and daily Hungarian matching on the same constrained problem, ranked lexicographically and re-validated from scratch.

6 solversone ranked winner