Work Experience

Where the team has been building, shipping, and learning.

Adam Maatouk

  1. Jun 2026 – Present

    Meta Production Engineering Fellow

    Meta & Major League Hacking · Internship

    North America · Remote

    Mastering core Production Engineering (PE) and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) concepts — system architecture, Linux internals, network protocols, and scripting. Collaborating on open-source projects and simulated production environments to optimize performance, reliability, and scalability, working with mentors and peers using Git, code reviews, and post-mortems.

  2. Mar 2025 – Present

    Founder

    Stealth Startup · Self-employed

    Montreal, Quebec, Canada · Hybrid

    Building a new venture (currently in stealth).

  3. Mar 2025 – Jul 2025

    Software Engineer

    Athena AI · Internship

    Montreal, Quebec, Canada · Remote

    Shipped production React + TypeScript features for a startup with 3M+ users: improved load times 35% and UI responsiveness 28%; built Python AI evaluation pipelines (+18% accuracy) and real-time model tuning (−22% low-confidence responses); cut recurring user-reported bugs 25%; supported live demos at World Summit AI.

  4. Jun 2021 – Sep 2025

    Material Handler

    Tanguay · Seasonal

    Montreal, Quebec, Canada · On-site

    Reduced product damage 15% by standardizing loading for 50+ units/shift; improved staging efficiency 20%; maintained 100% on-time shipment readiness; increased loading throughput 18%.

  5. Oct 2018 – Feb 2021

    Sales Associate

    Best Buy · Seasonal

    Montreal, Quebec, Canada · On-site

    Increased accessory sales 25%, hit 110% of quarterly targets, and reduced transaction errors 30% through careful POS verification.

  6. Jun 2019 – Aug 2020

    Camp Instructor

    Les Fourchettes de l'Espoir · Seasonal

    Montreal, Quebec, Canada · On-site

    Supervised groups of 20+ youth with zero safety incidents, improved engagement 20%, and streamlined daily setup workflows.

Amar Kanakamedala

  1. Jun 2026 – Present

    Software Engineer Intern

    OmniScience · Internship

    Houston, Texas · Hybrid

    Building agentic applications for life science organizations.

  2. Jun 2026 – Present

    Software Development Intern

    Amazon Web Services (AWS) · Internship

    Bellevue, Washington · On-site

    Incoming Fall 2026.

  3. Jun 2026 – Present

    Production Engineering Fellow

    Meta & Major League Hacking · Internship

    Remote

    Selected for the highly competitive Meta–MLH Production Engineering Fellowship (2.5% acceptance rate); committing 20 hrs/week to hands-on systems development, open-source project contribution, mentorship, and collaboration.

  4. Oct 2024 – Jun 2026

    Research Assistant

    RUSHLab · Part-time

    Houston, Texas · On-site

    Applied randomization and hashing algorithms to improve LLMs (co-advised by Sahil Joshi and Professor Anshumali Shrivastava).

    Paper on OpenReview →
  5. Oct 2024 – May 2025

    Software Engineer

    Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy · Internship

    Houston, Texas · On-site

    Built semantic search capabilities around government documents for public use.

    Project on GitHub →
  6. Jun 2023 – Aug 2023

    Research Intern

    George Mason University – College of Science · Internship

    Fairfax County, Virginia · Hybrid

    Worked with one intern and two mentors to produce the paper “Studying the Influence of Income Differences and Credit History on Racial Disparities in the Mortgage Market using Machine Learning,” with the abstract to be published in GMU's Journal of Student Scientists' Research.

  7. Jun 2022 – Jul 2022

    Summer Intern

    Lyne.ai · Internship

    United States · Remote

    Worked with CTO Saatvik Mohan and co-founder Hans Dekker to build a lead-sheet formatter in Google Apps Script in 177 lines of code.

Gabriel Changamire

  1. Summer 2026 – Present

    Production Engineering Fellow

    Meta × Major League Hacking (MLH) · Fellowship

    Remote

    Selected for the MLH Fellowship Production Engineering track, sponsored by Meta. Hands-on PE/SRE work: infrastructure, monitoring, automation, and the operational practices that keep large-scale systems reliable.

  2. May 2025 – Present

    Computer Science Tutor

    Bellevue College Academic Success Center & Writing Lab · Part-time

    Bellevue, Washington · On-site

    Tutor students in CS, Python, Java, data structures, math, English, and economics, helping them build strong problem-solving skills and clear technical reasoning.

  3. 2025 – Present

    Mentors in Tech (MinT) Fellow

    Bellevue College MinT Program · Fellowship

    Bellevue, Washington

    Paired with industry mentors Spencer Nelson (Principal UX Engineer & Manager, Microsoft) and Starlight Romero (Principal Platform Engineer) to build technical skills and grow a professional network.