Apple Inc. via Inspyr Solutions
Engineering Project Manager — AI & ML Data Operations
📅 January 2025 - October 2025
📍 Cupertino, CA
Program Leadership
- Selected as an original member of Apple's AI/ML data collection initiative, helping establish the operational standards, workflows, and protocols adopted across future moderator programs
- Led end-to-end project planning with engineering, legal, and cross-functional stakeholders to define requirements, timelines, compliance processes, and scalable execution strategies
- Successfully led the technical development and operational rollout of 9+ AI/ML data collection projects in approximately 18 months
- Architected repeatable, scalable collection frameworks that let projects transition seamlessly to external vendors after internal validation
- Managed daily communication with engineering teams and stakeholders to keep milestones, collection quotas, and quality objectives on track
Engineering & Automation
- Developed and deployed Python automation tools using Linux, SSH, and internal systems to extract data from prototype Apple devices, reducing manual effort and improving collection efficiency
- Designed and implemented a scalable data ingestion pipeline for processing and uploading large-scale datasets into internal infrastructure
- Built internal metadata management tools and user interfaces that streamlined annotation workflows while improving consistency and data quality
- Engineered automated validation and quality assurance checks verifying metadata integrity before ingestion, significantly reducing downstream errors
- Contributed to an internal application enabling synchronized multi-device recording, improving efficiency during large-scale AI data collection
- Rapidly developed numerous internal automation tools using Python and AI-assisted development, accelerating engineering workflows
GIS & Routing
- Helped develop an internal GIS routing application using Apple Maps APIs to improve route planning and field data collection
- Built routing solutions accounting for traffic, construction, road closures, and map updates to improve operational efficiency
- Developed geospatial data workflows that adapted to changing routing requirements and improved field planning
Hardware, Quality & Enablement
- Installed and configured experimental operating system builds on prototype hardware, preparing devices for engineering validation and production data collection
- Created dashboards and reporting tools to monitor collection progress, project health, throughput, and quality metrics
- Trained over 40 Apple moderators, 2 project managers, and 3 backend/data engineers on collection procedures, tooling, prototype devices, and operational best practices
- Performed quality assurance on collected assets, maintaining strict standards before delivery to engineering teams
Python
Linux
SSH
Apple Maps APIs
GIS
Data Pipelines
Metadata Tooling
Data Quality
AWS
Project Management