Engineering, research,
and learning by building.
I’m Oliver, a machine learning engineer currently based in Charlotte, North Carolina.
I’m the founding ML engineer at a stealth startup, where I own model training, evaluation, inference, and integration.
My research interests are reinforcement learning and post-training: fine-tuning, LoRA, and model merging. Outside work I build LiminalML and run LexiMind, an open-source research project.
- Degree
- B.S. Computer Science
- School
- Appalachian State University
- Class of
- 2026
- Minor
- Mathematics
- Certificate
- Data Science
Coursework
CS229 Machine Learning · CS230 Deep Learning · CS336 Language Modeling from Scratch · CS224R Deep Reinforcement Learning · CME295/296 Transformers & LLMs.
Applied Machine Learning · Advanced Reinforcement Learning · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Systems · Numerical Methods · Computational Mathematics · Statistical Data Analysis · Linear Algebra · Theoretical Computer Science · Programming Languages (Functional Programming w/ Haskell) · Data Structures & Algorithms.
DeepLearning.AI Machine Learning Specialization (Andrew Ng). See certifications below.
Academic projects
Lambda-calculus interpreter with type inference (Haskell) · pipelined CPU simulator (C/C++) · 2D game engine (Java).
Reach out
Always happy to talk about RL, post-training, or NLP. Get in touch.
Verified credentials
The structured courses I've completed and kept verifiable records for.
