It Starts with a Question

A messy dataset, a classroom of total beginners, or a startup problem. I work best when I have an honest question and can deliver something people can actually use. If you need a data-driven builder who can also teach the room how it works, I'm the right person.

About Me

I'm Wayne, a Data Science student at UC Berkeley. These days I build data-driven tools, teach 50+ students in Berkeley's Data C8, and paddle on Cal's dragonboat team. If there's a hard problem and good people, I want in.

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Experience

June 2026 — Present

Expert Project Manager (EPM)

Mercor

Built dashboards and AI-assisted tools that lifted weekly task completion 51% and team throughput 65% for 100+ PhD-level experts across 6 domains, and analyzed 300+ expert-authored tasks to surface model failure modes and inform retraining priorities.

June 2026 — August 2026

Group Facilitator

Berkeley Unboxing Data Science

Ran a 7-week pre-college program end-to-end for 13 students, building AI-assisted Jupyter curricula in Claude that took beginners to a 95%-accuracy model — earning 93% positive feedback across all 7 weeks.

February 2026 — June 2026

Machine Learning Engineer (Contract)

National Geographic

Deployed VLMs and ByteTrack to monitor 15+ taxa across 500+ hours of video at 92% accuracy, and built an unsupervised clustering pipeline (DBSCAN, K-Means) that halved labeling time and cut end-to-end processing by 40%.

January 2026 — March 2026

People Analytics Extern

Amazon Fulfillment Center

Ran NLP sentiment analysis (NLTK, TextBlob) on 5,000+ feedback entries to map attrition drivers (+20% reporting accuracy) and built a classification system that cut incident risk 15%, delivered as leadership briefing decks.

October 2025 — January 2026

Machine Learning Consultant (Contract)

EdTrust

Architected a serverless AWS pipeline (Lambda, S3, Glue) unifying 25M+ academic records (−30% query latency) and shipped a RAG chatbot on Bedrock giving 500+ users self-service insights (−25% support requests).

August 2025 — April 2026

Growth Data Analyst Intern (Part-Time)

Ditto AI

Automated acquisition via SQL/Python (3,000+ new users, +12% conversion) and ran rigorous A/B tests (Statsmodels, SciPy); modeled growth drivers with regression to reach 500k+ viewers at 15% WoW.

January 2025 — Present

Undergraduate Student Instructor (Tutor + TA)

UC Berkeley — Data C8

Demystified data science concepts — hypothesis testing, regression, classification — for 100+ students, lifting mentored exam performance ~15%, with tailored 1:1 mentorship across 25+ assignments.

January 2025 — January 2026

Marketing Director / Social Media Manager

NewSpace @ Berkeley

Managed social across LinkedIn and Instagram — spotlighting space symposiums, tours, and student projects to grow engagement and interest in the space industry.