Software Engineer | AI & ML Enthusiast | HPC & Embedded Systems Developer
I am a software engineer and researcher with a strong focus on AI, high-performance computing, embedded systems, and full-stack development. My work involves developing AI-powered applications, optimizing parallel computing solutions, and building intelligent systems for research and practical applications.
- Expanding the capabilities of local LLM APIs using LlamaCPP and Mixtral
- Developing AI-powered chatbots for academic and research institutions
- Building large-scale data visualization dashboards for scientific publications and repositories
- Optimizing parallel computing solutions for HPC and research projects
- Advanced LLM fine-tuning and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
- Low-level programming and embedded systems for avionics and robotics
- AI-driven optimization techniques for real-world applications
- Game development with AI-driven agents
- AI/ML projects involving LLMs, computer vision, NLP, or automation
- HPC and distributed computing research to optimize large-scale computations
- Embedded systems development for robotics, avionics, and IoT
- AI-driven game development and AI-accelerated applications
- AI agent-driven games
- AI-accelerated applications
- Machine Learning, AI, and Large Language Models (LLMs)
- High-Performance Computing and Parallel Processing
- Full-stack development (Python, Flask, Django, JavaScript, SQL)
- Embedded Systems and Avionics Engineering
- AI-powered chatbots and automation
Email: amfernandez7@crimson.ua.edu
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/avery-fernandez
Portfolio: www.optimumaf.com
I once designed and built an avionics system for a NASA Student Launch rocket, integrating real-time tracking, navigation, and AI-powered image processing in just four hours—during a tornado warning.