hunter paulson

projects
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personal projects

wikiarena.org

a multi-turn tool use evaluation for language models

the eval was a weekend project. the infra to find the shortest path between two wikipedia pages in ~100ms is a passion project.

work experience

PayPal - Machine Learning Engineer

led the creation of PayPal’s central agent harness ‘Pal’. allowing any team to build MCP servers and create their own agents / workflows in a self-serve manner.

building and maintaining real-time metrics pipelines for every http response and server log across all PayPal brands. the single, structured, source of truth for all site reliability metrics.

designed algo and pipeline to identify the root cause component of every customer perceived failure in real-time.

wrote compiler from python to bigquery sql.

automated data lineage documentation by parsing and creating graph from every sql query ran in the company daily.

I will add links when I can share publicly.

Boeing - ML Research Assistant

trained computer vision models and built data labeling pipelines for assemply line automation

NASA JPL - Flight Software Engineer Intern

contributed to the open source flight software framework that supported the Mars Helicopter Ingenuity.

fun fact: I was the intern who ran the autoformatter meme.

ASU Cube Satelite Lab

worked on the Phoenix 3U Cube Satelite. launched from the ISS on Feb 19, 2020.