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Extern · May 2024 - May 2025 · Remote

Machine Learning Engineer (Externship)

Beats by Dre: Python NLP pipeline (spaCy, VADER, fine-tuned BERT) over 2,000+ product reviews. Aspect-level sentiment showed customers paying for battery life and durability, not premium status; the pricing recommendation was adopted and sales rose 10%.

HP Tech Ventures: technical due diligence on 30+ AI/ML startups, separating genuine model differentiation from thin API wrappers, plus a Snowflake ETL pipeline over 50K+ records that cut query runtime 45%.

  • Beats by Dre NLP (spaCy, VADER, fine-tuned BERT) over 2,000+ reviews driving a 10% sales lift
  • HP Tech Ventures due diligence on 30+ AI/ML startups
  • Snowflake ETL over 50K+ records cutting query runtime 45%
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