Senior Applied AI Scientist
·L.A. Care Health PlanOwn production ML across the largest publicly operated health plan in the U.S., from ETL to models validated in the real world.
- Sole contributor on a claims-audit application for claim adjudication operations, from PySpark distributed pipelines and ACID transactional storage to delivery for a 12-person audit team, driving operational improvement and efficiency through root-cause issue identification and resolution, with $10M in error reduction validated by a randomized controlled trial.
- Built and shipped production Python REST ChatGPT API services on Azure (Docker, monitoring, anomaly detection) with agentic Chain-of-Thought and CoVe (Chain-of-Verification) hallucination control, improving medication identification for members and preventing $2M in adverse outcomes.
- Core designer of the DHCS RSST geospatial health-improvement scoring module, built with state entities to surface equity improvements across California and deployed to a 55+ person analytics team.
- Scoped a regulatory-compliant intervention system in Python/PySpark with a 17-person PharmD team, running 16 campaigns across population-health measures, diabetes glucose control, colorectal cancer screening, and blood pressure, that beat competitor benchmarks.
- Applied XGBoost, CatBoost, and LightGBM bagging and stacking with post-training equity adjustment to target population-health measures (e.g., Diabetes Glucose Control) across 2.7 million members.
- Built and maintained GitHub CI/CD pipelines with automated tests and safe deploys across SQL, Snowflake, and PySpark.
PySparkSparkIcebergChatGPT / LLMsXGBoost / LightGBMAzureSnowflake