Joey Hersh

Trinity University Computer Science Student

Data Engineering Intern

Collaborated on an agile team to manage end-to-end development cycles, driving a new feature from requirement inception through to production, utilizing tools such as Snowflake, DBT, Talon, and Control M.
Created a a specialized tool to enable the business to rapidly access and analyze credit card underwriting data, and developed data validation and automated testing scripts to enable faster development of similar features in the future
Presented to an audience of 400 developers and data scientists from across the organization in a speaker series called Let’s Talk Data – Generative AI where I demoed a vector database backed chat bot powered by Falcon-40b I built to improve the experience of using the USAA intranet to find obscure information

Chief Executive Officer, Machine Learning Engineer

Raised $46,000 in seed capital and cash prizes, and over $60,000 of in-kind prizes through the Stumberg Venture Competition.
Lead a team of seven developers building and implementing full architecture for a (mostly) serverless, cloud native application that utilizes over 25 AWS services.
Managed communication between the development and business units, explaining complex backend logic to people with minimal expertise.
Met cyber-security standards for Plaid production-level access (iso 27001) to account balance and transaction data from most major American banks
Leveraged ensemble learning algorithms (XG-BOOST) as well as foundational LLM models (GPT-4, LLaMA2, finetuned GPT-3.5 Turbo) alongside AWS-managed ML services such as Textract, Comprehend, etc. to analyze user uploaded receipts and generate unique advice on how to spend better.

IT Support and Systems Administration for Staff and Students

Summer volunteer position through St. Andrew's Episcopal School assisting Breakthrough, a non-profit that helps sixth through twelfth-grade students that hope to become first-generation college students achieve their goals.
Provided IT support each summer to both staff and students including mobile device repair, staff software deployment, managing student system permissions, campus network management, AV setup and repair, etc.