Education
California State University Channel Islands Camarillo, CA Master of Science in Computer Science, 3.8 GPA January 2021 -May 2025 California State University Channel Islands Camarillo,CA Bachelor of Science in Computer Science September 2019 December 2023 Skills
Teaching & Communication: Peer mentoring. private STEM tutoring, technical instruction, staff training, onboarding. instructional documentation, explaining complex concepts to non-technical audiences AI & Machine Python, Java, JavaScript, C, SQL, PHP Programming: Learning: PyTorch, YOLO¥S, Ultralytics, Robofiow, LangChain, Ollama Development Tools: Git, Docker, Linux, GitHub Actions, ROS Web Development: React, Nextjs, Node.js, HTML/CSS, REST APIs Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQI, MongoDB Spoken Languages: English (fluent), Russian (fluent)
Teaching & Mentoring Experience
CSUCI Computer Science Department
Capstone Peer Mentor
Camarillo, CA January 2024- May 2024
-Mentored undergraduate students across 4 computer science capstone projects, providing technical guidance, project feedback, and assistance with implementation challenges.
- Advised student teams on machine learning concepts, development approaches, debugging, and project progression.
Tutor
Private Tutor
August 2019- December 2023
- Provided one-on-one tutoring in STEM subjects to high school and college students over four years, helping students understand challenging concepts and strengthen their academic performance. - Adapted teaching methods and explanations to individual learning styles, academic levels, and subject-specific needs.
Job Experience Dr. Anton Psycare
Therapy Office
Software Developer E IT Administrator
Remote
November 2022- Present
Train and onboard new hires and non-technical staff, providing hands-on instruction, technical support, and documentation to help employees independently navigate software and technology workflows.
Designed and built an ofiline AI clinical documentation assistant (Python, Whisper, Ollama, ChromaDB) with automatic PII redaction; introduced it to about 4 therapists, who use it daily, and refined it from their feedback.
Built and maintain the practice's production website and blog (Payload CMS, Next.js, MongoDB), owning technical decisions and keeping content live with static site generation GitHub Actions CI/CD. and - Hardened site security (reCAPTCHA, rate limiting, Cloudflare, HSTS/CSP), raising the Mozilla Observatory score to 75/100.
Projects
DARPA Search and Rescue Robot CSUCI Machine Learning Research Lab
Machine Learning Researcher
Camarillo, CA
January 2025- May 2025
Under the mentorship of Dr. Isaacs, wrote a custom Python training program using Ultralytics and YOLOv8m and deployed the model in the robot's embedded detection program on its Linux laptop. Built and versioned a 1,077-image thermal dataset in Roboflow (888/125/64 train/val/test), applying augmentations and tuning hyperparameters (image size, batch size, epochs, early-stopping patience). - Revised a second model that reduced false positives by 35% and reached up to 87% detection confidence on the live feed, demonstrated in live tests in front of school administrators Integrated Seek Thermal CompactXR and FLIR Boson cameras using ROS on Linux for real-time detection and tracking: tracked experiments with Weights & Biases and authored pipeline documentation for future contributors.
Dynamic Logistics Web Application CSUCI Team Project
Database Dev 8 Back-End Contributor
Camarillo, CA
August 2024-December 2024
Collaborated in a student team to build a dynamic web application for a logistics company, dividing work across front end, back end, and data layers.
- Designed and implemented the SQL database (schema and queries) and helped peers debug database and back-end issues Facilitated daily standups, sprint planning, and retrospectives on integration and testing.
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