SAN FRANCISCO, CA / AMES, IA
Tyler Mestery
AI/ML EngineerComputer Science student building agentic AI, ML pipelines, and systems software.B.S. Computer Science, Iowa State, May 2027
FarmChem
Software Engineer Intern · Aug 2026 to PresentBuilding an in-house SCADA/HMI platform to run automation company-wide, alongside real-time data pipelines that turn CAD layouts into live visualizations across 10+ sites.Different problem space from security AI. Same bar: it has to work in the real world.
AMES
SUMMER 2026 · SAN FRANCISCOCisco
AI Machine Learning Engineer Intern · May to Aug 2026Built an agentic AI platform that turns security vulnerabilities into mitigation policies in minutes instead of hours.The first two weeks were not a desk.I wrote about this →(opens in new tab)
CALIFORNIA COAST
SAN FRANCISCO
GOLDEN GATE
CAMPUS · AMESIowa State
2025 to 2026Kept 200+ faculty up and running by owning IT support, imaging, and infrastructure for campus labs and offices.Built and evaluated an end-to-end pipeline using LLMs to translate ML code from PyTorch to JAX, benchmarking multiple models to validate translation accuracy.Built a benchmark testing how well LLMs translate code across 5 languages, then deployed it to run at scale on Google Cloud.
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