2016 – 2019: IBM Watson Health, Cambridge, MA

At IBM Watson Health, I worked in a software engineering team that worked with IBM Research to create a prototype product deployed across a hospital network of nearly 875 Primary Care Physicians (PCPs).

It was designed to increase the time doctors were able to spend providing personalized care, without using their valuable time for data trends across the patient’s healthcare history.

What did I learn: How to take a research paper and create a product around it, what HIPAA means and the challenges of making healthcare accessible without burning out doctors.

My experience at IBM also taught me that ML-transparency and literacy aren’t as clear to customers whose problems we’re trying to solve. I wanted to work more with the client and people-interfacing parts of building ML.

Also I spent a lot of my time outside of work making comedy a serious hobby.