Ameer Arsala

Experience

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  Self-employed

  May 2020 - Mar 2022

  Lead Software Architect / Game Developer

  - Architected and Developed SRPG game Ethereal Tempest (GitHub Source Code) from scratch without a game engine entirely in Java, GLSL, and JSON. Has >100,000 lines of code- Forced as a result to learn how to use good software engineering and programming practices to achieve good performance and smooth development in large-scale project- Coordinated a team of amateur artists and musicians to skillfully contribute and collaborate with one another in pursuit of a greater goal

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  Skali Inc.

  Jun 2022 - Oct 2022

  Software Engineer

  Front End Software Engineering using React, Designed UI+UX, Backend development using Java Spring Boot. Created and deployed a risk-assessment machine learning model pipeline using TensorFlow and Scikit-Learn.

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  CSAI Cal Poly

  May 2023 - now

  Research Lead

  I lead the research team, we read papers each week, talk about them and experiment with implementations of papers.Outside of that, I've also lead several projects such as the development of a custom Pong game in Unity so that a reinforcement learning agent is trained to play it with Unity ML-Agents, while also adhering to modern software engineering and game design practices to make the modified version of Pong a good example to teach to all skill levels

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  Cal Poly Computer Science and Software Engineering Department

  Sept 2023 - now

  Undergraduate Student Researcher

  - Co-lead researcher of the Deep Learning team for Search & Rescue: both devised & implemented a multimodal transformer approach to finding missing people. Future work is based on a topological approach- Engaged in literature review of current state-of-the-art deep learning techniques applied to the S&R problem, implementing them, drawing inspiration from them, coming up with a version that applied to the problem, and iterating on it- Studied both the problem (as well as the domain knowledge it came from) and the data that was accessible and lead the collaborative effort - Additionally, Project Manager for coordinating between teams. Went to other teams' meetings to better understand the issue and help them coordinate with the Deep Learning and Machine Learning teams Show less

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  Stanford Center for Clinical Research (SCCR)

  Oct 2023 - Jan 2024

  Deep Learning Researcher

  LLM Researcher for a new type of LLM to accurately create personas and conversations based on these personalities that emulate real human behavior in a way that generates to a near-infinite context length based on Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures

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  Nexstera Tech

  Apr 2024 - Jun 2024

  Machine Learning R&D
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  RAN

  Aug 2024 - now

  Co-Founder & CEO

  We are building an artificial intelligence-powered research platform designed to address the current demands of applied and academic computing research and development.

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  Conda-Forge

  Oct 2024 - now

  OSS

  lead maintainer of multiple conda packages and member of the conda-forge organizationCheck out the status at anaconda.org or prefix.dev