Career Wiki
Implementation of Karpathy's LLM wiki idea for my career history. Single source of truth so AI can query it for tailored resumes, STAR stories, and interview prep
V. Daniel B.
Projects
Everything I've built across AI/ML Engineering, Software Development, and Data Science.
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QwenMath
QLoRA fine-tuned Qwen3-4B to improve math accuracy from 50.3% to 80.2% through chain-of-thought distillation, placing 3rd among 300+ students
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Nightwing
Autonomous self-exploring RC car with a YOLO model identifying and counting humans
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Vehicle route optimization (Feeding San Diego)
Web app for Feeding San Diego to optimize delivery vehicle routes to 400k+ people monthly
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Pyrenote Desk (San Diego Zoo)
Desktop application for the San Diego Zoo to label, verify, and run classification ML models on terabytes of wildlife audio data.
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RoboRanger
Won Best Edge AI/ML at a hackathon by building an offline edge AI device that uses CNN-based image classification to identify local species and a voice AI agent to provide interactive, park-ranger-style tours of their ecosystems.
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AgentMarketSim
Won first place in a hackathon by building a platform that spawns 100 parallel AI agents to model market reactions to news headlines and help predict price movements.
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Regression Analysis on Stock Price Correlations and Macroeconomic Factors during the AI Boom.
Regression analysis of factors influencing NVDA's stock price before and after the AI boom. Concluded that NVIDIA has shifted from being influenced by broad economic conditions (VIX, interest rates) to being driven primarily by its own financial results (EPS).
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Twitch streamer recommender
Developed a hybrid recommender system for Twitch streamers using implicit-feedback ALS matrix factorization, achieving 4× better precision and recall than a popularity-only baseline.
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Banana ripeness classifier on Arduino
Trained and deployed an SVM model on Arduino to classify and flag overripe bananas for large industrial warehouse operations.
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Student organization websites
Websites for campus groups including Triton Web Dev, PERMIAS SDIA, and Triton Minecraft.
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Food Waste Watch
Interactive and narrative-focused dashboard and data visualization exploring food waste patterns across the United States.
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Blood Glucose Level Visualization
Interactive visualization of blood glucose levels of 16 patients. Won best project award in DSC 106.
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American food nutrition analysis
End-to-end data science report on American food nutrition: data cleaning, exploratory analysis, hypothesis testing.