David N. Juboor

I'm a hyper-curious ML engineer who keeps getting pulled into hard problems across fields I didn't start in. pharma, finance, legal, entertainment, robotics, research — and often more than one at a time.

Experience
  • ML lead for JARVIS — Imagineering's agentic AI platform, built on 70 years of institutional knowledge
  • Org-wide AI adoption across thousands of Imagineers — agentic workflows, MCP tooling, search systems, and large-scale information extraction
  • Cross-org ML strategy across Imagineering, Disney Research, and Studios
  • Built and managed the ML engineering portfolio for a $100MM+/yr business segment
  • Managed up to 12 direct reports, ~150 in-house and third-party annotation staff
  • Reduced cloud costs ~90% and increased deploy speed 20x via serverless migration
  • Shipped 15+ products and secured >10 patents for novel ML systems
  • Small-batch fashion manufacturer in the Carolina Textile District
  • ML and automation strategy for design-to-production pipeline
  • Technical due diligence and vendor evaluation for ML tooling
  • Mortgage procurement automation for the top 10 global banks
  • Led deep learning team of 8, took production performance from 41% to 92%
  • Reduced overhead costs 30x via serverless architectures
  • Increased NLP transformer performance via novel pruning and ensemble methods
  • Core developer on Lexis+, the flagship legal research platform
  • Productionalized custom OCR and information extraction serving 300M docs daily
  • Production pipelines for training, fine-tuning, and deployment of GPT-based foundation models
  • NLP unsupervised clustering for mission-critical financial reporting
  • Supported web-scraping infrastructure and DL recommendation systems
  • Deep learning anomaly detection for autonomous laboratory robotics
  • Reduced drug compound analysis resources 500x using CNNs and custom clustering
  • Automated solid dispensing and solubility testing robotics in pre-formulation drug discovery
  • Co-author, Organic Process Research & Development (ACS)
  • ML R&D consultancy, scaled from solo to 40+ engineers
  • Developed partnerships with Nvidia, AWS, and IBM
  • Production systems across CV, NLP, and time-series for seed-stage to enterprise clients
  • AI speech coaching app — 300K+ users, featured in TechCrunch, Wired, Fast Company
  • Optimized core speech processing pipeline in Kaldi, reducing STT computation by 40x
  • Founder went on to raise $2.3M seed and land Forbes 30 Under 30
  • Boutique AI career consulting born as a Covid-era passion project to give back to the ML community
  • 53 individuals placed into senior+ ML positions through direct 1:1 mentorship
Projects & Research
  • Mobile job-site management platform for construction subcontractors
  • Real-time crew tracking, digital invoicing, and project documentation (getzenhammer.com)
  • Designed custom electronics to reduce noise in data, increasing capabilities by 20x
  • Used IoT and signal processing to reduce laboratory costs by 30%
  • Invented and fabricated novel laboratory equipment for solar cell fabrication (Fafarman Group)
  • Supervised 16 engineers designing custom IoT control systems for Drexel's hyperloop pod
  • Pod manufactured and tested at SpaceX HQ in Hawthorne with a team of 110+
  • Social discovery iOS app with custom DL recommendation systems
  • Cloud AI for OCR, sentiment analysis, and object recognition
  • Research, synthesis, and assay of novel antioxidant compounds
  • Presented at the American Chemical Society Conference (2015)
  • Awarded Honorary ACS Membership
  • Distributed botnet platform for automating an MMO at scale
  • Custom scripting engine, anti-detection systems, and multi-account orchestration
  • First real engineering project — everything since started here
Patents
  • Self-Maintaining Hierarchical Tool Routing for LLM Agent Ecosystems
  • Hierarchy-Aware Hard Negative Mining for Document Retrieval
  • Gated Multimodal Mixture of Experts for Document Classification
  • Auto-Calibration of Projection Systems in Feature Sparse Scenes
  • Dynamic Auto-Repainting for Lightsaber Animation
Education

BSE Chemical Engineering, Drexel University
MSE Engineering Management (in progress)
Additional studies in chemistry, biology, philosophy, literature, and jazz theory.

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