Member of Technical Staff & Agentic AI Engineer
In one line: I build and ship agentic AI products that are anchored to a real business outcome, backed by hands-on RLOps, published ML research, and Forward Deployed Engineering.
Biography
Hello, and thank you for visiting. I’m a Member of Technical Staff, building agentic AI products tied to real business outcomes. I sit close to the business and closer to the metal.
I was previously a Senior Applied AI Scientist at Manulife, working as an internal Forward Deployed Engineer. Before that, I owned RLOps from thought to production at Prem Labs for their agent finetuning platform, now live on AWS Marketplace. I’m an early contributor to Hugging Face’s trl library, the most widely used LLM finetuning library in the world.
I completed my Master in Applied Science from Queen’s University under the supervision of Dr. Ali Etemad. My research on Deepfake Detection was partially funded by the Vector Institute Scholarship in AI. Published in NeurIPS and TMLR. Reviewer at NeurIPS and ICASSP 2026. Listen to this podcast to know more.
In the 5pm–9am part of my life, I advise and help traditional businesses become AI-ready.
If you’d like to discuss something or collaborate, please don’t hesitate to reach out at sdas[DOT]codes[AT]gmail[DOT]com.
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