About Derek Rodriguez

I’m a Machine Learning Engineer at SmarterDX, where I help deploy and maintain LLM-powered pipelines in the healthcare admin space. Previously, I was a member of the NUCAR Lab at Northeastern University, studying under Prof. David Kaeli. Before that, I got my B.Sc. in Computer Science at Clemson University and worked under Prof. Rong Ge looking at performance engineering challenges in GPU clusters.

I engage the most over email and Mastodon.

Recent writing

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  1. Parse, don't validate through the years with C++ 14 min
  2. Magic: the Gathering is full of interesting ML challenges 4 min
  3. Building PlantHub: A data plantform for monitoring plants 9 min
  4. Can you spot the bug in this Python code? 4 min
  5. Jaypeg: improving my Go programming skills by building an image host 10 min
  6. A recommender system for arXiv in < 500 lines of Python, and other lies I tell myself 9 min
  7. Thoughts on disrupting the triple payer system 4 min
  8. R is a joy if you treat it like awk 3 min
  9. Pathfinding in Games, Part 1: Linear Quadtrees with Level Differences 3 min
  10. On the practicality of running an AI Gym over a network socket 2 min