About

Hello, my name is James Braza, and welcome to my professional website.

I work onsite at FutureHouse on both the learning and platform teams. Through FutureHouse I have trained LLMs and built agentic systems, and have authorship on multiple conference papers. Previously I worked onsite at Synthego for the Advanced Technologies Group for five years, creating software systems with Python. I also took graduate computer science coursework in artificial intelligence at Stanford part-time between January 2021 and June 2023. I completed enough graduate artificial intelligence coursework to almost fulfill the depth portion of a master’s in computer science, specializing in AI.

I grew up in New England and received a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and a minor in economics at the University of Pittsburgh. I informally specialized in robotics and was very active within Pittsburgh’s Robotics Club. I summer interned in 2016 within Tesla’s powertrain manufacturing operations doing machine vision. I graduated from Pittsburgh in April 2017, then moved to California to work for SpaceX as an automation engineer in vehicle engineering’s propulsion components.

In short, I have been blessed with the ability to pursue passions and chase dreams. I am most interested in ML research and consider myself a technologist. I believe in open collaboration, mistakes are forgotten with quick iteration, and an overall emphasis on strong engineering. I consider us to be in the era of the great builder. Thanks for visiting, and feel free to reach out.

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