John Simonsen

MLOps Stack Q&A Bot | End-to-end RAG Application

• Developed a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) application designed to answer questions about MLOps tools (ZenML, MLflow, Docker, etc.) by utilizing official documentation.
• Engineered a data ingestion pipeline involving web scraping, embedding generation (using Ollama), and storage in a ChromaDB vector database.
• Built and containerized a RESTful API using FastAPI and Docker, and integrated it with a front-end web interface.
• Deployed the containerized application on a local Kubernetes cluster for development and testing.
• Authored a complete blueprint for cloud deployment, including Terraform configuration for AWS (EKS, ECR, S3) and a CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions.

Flight Delay Predictor | MLOps, CI/CD & Model Deployment

• Developed and deployed a machine learning model for predicting flight delays using Python, FastAPI, Docker, and MLflow.
• Utilized MLflow for model tracking, versioning, and deployment, showcasing experience with a leading MLOps platform.
• Implemented a CI/CD pipeline using GitLab to automate the testing (Pytest) and deployment process.

Customer Sentiment Analysis | NLP & LSTM Networks

• Developed and trained an LSTM neural network model using PyTorch to classify customer sentiment from product and service reviews.
• Implemented text data preparation pipeline including cleaning, tokenization (NLTK), lemmatization, and padding.
• Employed techniques like embedding layers, dropout regularization, and early stopping to mitigate overfitting.

Jefferson County and Platt Canyon School Districts (Conifer, CO)

DataAnnotation (Remote)

• Evaluated, refined, and improved AI-generated code, text, and technical explanations to enhance model performance.
• Performed data annotation, quality assurance, and fact-checking for large language models (LLM) training datasets.

Northern Utah Academy for Math, Engineering, and Science Early College High School (Layton, UT)

• Technical Curriculum Development: Spearheaded the creation of the new computer science department; designed all curriculum and course pathways from the ground up for web development, game design, and advanced programming.
• Technical Instruction & LMS: Authored and taught college-level curriculum (concurrent enrollment), managing all course materials and assessments within the Canvas LMS.
• Developer & Community Engagement: Created and led technical workshops for professional educators on automating grading workflows using Python and GitHub.
• Community Leadership: Mentored a CyberPatriot cybersecurity team to consistent 1^st - 3^rd place state rankings for five consecutive years.
• System Administration: Administered and maintained a 28-station Ubuntu lab, managing all imaging, software deployment, and network configuration.

Mountain Crest High School (Hyrum, UT)

Western Governors University

Utah State University

• Professional Education License, Secondary Ed. (CS & Tech) | Expires 2028 Utah State Board of Education
• Linux Essentials Certificate | 2024 Linux Professional Institute

Awards

• Eagle Scout Award with Bronze Palm
• Winner, Northrup Grumman Coding Challenge, Hill Air Force Base