I am a Senior Data Scientist at Optum (UnitedHealth Group), where I build autonomous medical coding systems and production LLM pipelines for clinical language understanding, code prediction, and workflow automation. Previously, I was a Computer Science Lecturer at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and also held data science roles across industry.

I focus on autonomous and assisted medical coding intelligence, long-context reasoning over multi-encounter clinical records, and model adaptation using instruction tuning, retrieval, and evaluation harnesses, while integrating safety and governance mechanisms required for regulated healthcare deployment. My work spans millions of clinical charts and covers the full lifecycle of AI deployment in healthcare, from data pipeline development and training pipeline design to evaluation frameworks, internal tooling, stakeholder alignment, and production rollout.

I ocassionally use Substack for personal reflection and journaling.