AI Engineer / Data Scientist / Open Source Nerd

i make AI tools healthcare workers actually want to use

5 years professional experience3 AI Models In Production1 open source project

Featured Projects

A selection of my recent work in AI, healthcare, and open source

Clinical AI Demo

February 2025
wip

Try it live.

Live interactive demo - ask an AI questions about a synthetic clinical document in real time.

Next.jsOpenAITypeScriptTailwindCSS
AIHealthcareDemoLLMClinical
Role: AI Engineer
open source

Let's make prior auth suck less.

An open-source platform to explore and build smarter prior authorization rules. Features a provider-focused web app that showcases crowd-sourced rule definitions, an AI assistant, and a smart form builder—all optimized for transparency and automation.

Next.jsTailwindCSSFastAPIAzure OpenAI+1 more
HealthcareAILLMPrior AuthOpen SourceTransparency
Role: Full Stack Developer

GenAI Prior Authorization System

July 2024
work

AI-powered prior authorization automation

Led GenAI initiative in prior authorization, achieving >95% accuracy on urgent request detection, reducing turnaround from days to seconds. Added AI clinical summarization capabilities.

PythonOpenAITransformersAzure+1 more
GenAIHealthcarePrior AuthorizationAI Governance
Role: Senior Data Scientist

HEDIS Evidence Locator

October 2024
work

Clinical quality evidence at scale.

RAG-powered system for clinical quality measure evidence extraction, currently in production with cross-functional architecture teams.

PythonRAGAzureHealthcare Analytics+1 more
RAGHealthcareHEDISGenAIProduction
Role: Senior Data Scientist

Experience

My journey in data science and AI, with a focus on healthcare applications

Senior Data Scientist

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana
Baton Rouge, LA
July 2024 - Present
Featured

Leading GenAI initiatives in healthcare, specializing in prior authorization automation and AI governance.

Key Achievements:

  • Architected HEDIS quality measure evidence recommendation system using RAG, gaining executive visibility and currently in production deployment with cross-functional architecture teams.
  • Engineered HCC AI pipeline automating clinical evidence extraction and risk score validation, generating an estimated $300K+ in annual cost savings and earning a company spot award for innovation impact.
  • Led enterprise generative AI initiative in prior authorization workflows, iterating from initial prototype to production-ready urgent request triage system with LLM-driven clinical summarization, reducing turnaround from days to seconds.
  • Advised AI governance committee on policy, bias mitigation, and ethical AI adoption in healthcare workflows as part of the internal AI Center of Excellence.
  • Built generative AI automations for customer service and internal survey analysis, reducing processing time from one week to minutes.
  • Managed annual wellness visit outreach model, coordinating engagement with 30k+ members.

Technologies & Skills:

PythonGenAIAI GovernanceHealthcare AnalyticsProject ManagementCross-functional Collaboration

Skills & Technologies

My technical toolkit, organized by expertise level

Data & Analytics

PythonSQLPySparkPandasNumPyData VisualizationETL PipelinesStatistical AnalysisTableauPowerBIDatabricks

Machine Learning & AI

Machine LearningDeep LearningNatural Language ProcessingComputer Visionscikit-learnTensorFlowPyTorchTransformersOpenAIGenAIAI GovernancePredictive ModelingspaCyOpenAI APILangChainMLOpsModel Monitoring

Cloud & Infrastructure

AzureDockerCI/CD

Web Development

ReactNext.jsTypeScriptJavaScriptNode.jsFastAPIFlaskPostgreSQLREST APIsTailwindCSS

Tools & Others

GitGitHubJupyterVS CodeLinuxBashOllamaMCPRustProject Management

Let's Connect

I'm always interested in new opportunities, collaborations, and interesting conversations about AI and healthcare.