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leopozh/README.md

Hello! I'm Leo

BS/MS student at RIT finishing both degrees in 4.5 years (my last semester will be 3 credits online)

BS Software Engineering (May 2027) and MS Computer Science (December 2027)

Open to: Summer 2027 MS internships and full-time roles starting May 2027

Work experience

  • Elsevier, AI Optimization Intern (June 2026 to August 2026): built an on-device LLM review tool and the citation pipeline behind it, helping support content get found and cited by AI search engines

  • Sorenson Communications, AI Scientist Intern (June 2025 to November 2025): built the debugger for production sign language translation models and worked directly with the recognition models

  • Ballista Technology Group (high school), DevOps Engineer Intern (May 2022 to August 2022): automated Docker builds and Kubernetes deployments on AWS and Azure, with CI on every push

  • Pratexo (high school), Software Engineering Intern (June 2021 to August 2021): built a mobile object detection prototype for K9 search and rescue, from Raspberry Pi to Google Coral Edge TPU

  • RIT, Teaching Assistant, Embedded Systems (September 2025 to May 2026): TA for two systems courses, including graduate Real-Time and Embedded Systems

Projects

  • Peel: HackMIT 2026 Grand Prize winner, a low-cost device that checks whether medicine is real by watching a tablet dissolve through light, where I built the hardware, wrote the ESP32 firmware in C++, and designed the orange mascot on its face

  • Ada: an AI hardware engineer that turns a plain-language spec into a manufacturable circuit board, where I built the retrieval layer and fabrication-order path on a hackathon team

  • Touchalytics: an Android app that recognizes you by how you swipe through a feed of cat photos, where I built the Firebase enrollment pipeline and the ML side that turns each swipe into a feature vector and verifies it against your enrolled profile

  • BERT Bouncer: an on-device prompt-injection firewall for Claude Code

  • Volatility: a local-first platform for backtesting trading strategies

Peel at HackMIT 2026: the team on the first place stage, the orange device with its mascot, and build photos
Peel, HackMIT 2026 Grand Prize
Ada, a KiCad board it produced
Ada		 Touchalytics login, enrollment, and verification screens
Touchalytics
BERT Bouncer Grafana dashboard
BERT Bouncer		 Volatility strategy lab
Volatility

Open source

Hobbies

Varsity swimming (50 free, 100 free), scuba diving, rock climbing, hiking, hackathons

Swimming Bouldering Hiking

Contact me

leo@pozhenko.com

linkedin.com/in/leopoz

650-550-0212

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