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Software Engineer, Google Cloud

2024 - 2025 New York, US
Working on Monarch, a planet-scale, in-memory time series database system primarily used for monitoring performance, availability, load, and other operational metrics of large-scale applications and infrastructure. Monarch is a multi-tenant service capable of ingesting terabytes of data per second, storing nearly a petabyte of time series data in memory, and handling millions of queries every second.

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Training a 14M GPT to Generate Children Stories in 20 Minutes: Pretraining, SFT, and Direct Preference Optimization

End to end implementation, parameter and architecture analysis, and light evaluation of the checkpoints

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As of 2026, It Will Most Certainly Endure the Test of Time, Albeit With a Raised Bar of Expectations

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