# Evan Vera > Software Engineer at InstaLILY AI | Vertical AI Agents Location: Monroe, Connecticut, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/evanvera Engineer with a passion for mathematics seeking to solve challenging, technical problems with the potential to improve people's lives. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ InstaLILY AI Jan 2025 – Present | New York, United States Led the inference team to reduce latency and price using heterogenous computing and computer architecture analysis (plus kernel development). Created and packaged a distributed task queue for asynchronous processing with atomic retrieval and detailed logging. Fine-tuned + deployed SLMs on classification and generation tasks, implementing a continuous training pipeline. Developed a client for an internal, modular MCP system supporting multi tenancy, authentication, and authorization. Created fuzzy search engine to match Salesforce cases to accounts, and later added a vector database to improve accuracy + allow for gradual improvement. ### Teaching Assistant for CS 5220: Applied High-Performance and Parallel Computing @ Cornell University Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Ithaca, New York, United States Developed a course project which tested students' ability to develop a shallow water equation solver in parallel using GPUs and multiple computer cores using CUDA and MPI. Held weekly office hours where I walked students through developing optimized matrix multiplication kernels, simulating water particle dynamics in a dam scenario, and completing the above project. ### Resident Advisor @ Cornell University Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Ithaca, NY Served as a community leader and peer educator, encouraging residents to respect one another and get involved with floor, hall and area activities, and provided information about campus resources. Made rounds of the community to meet residents and look for violations of policy, and served on-call for 24 hour periods where residents could call and ask questions or resolve issues. ### HelpDesk Technician @ Cornell Center for Social Sciences Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Ithaca, NY Managed distributed computing systems and user accounts, answered researcher queries, kept records and generated progress reports, and assisted with workshops. ### Summer Research Intern @ U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Vicksburg, MS Completed a project to autonomously search for optimal neural network designs and published a research paper on my work as part of the High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) Internship Program (HIP). ### AEW Facilitator @ Cornell Engineering Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Ithaca, NY Cofacilitated the courses ENGRG 1028 and ENGRG 1011, which are weekly two hour collaborative learning sessions where students reinforce their knowledge of concepts in discrete mathematics and Java programming. ### Summer Research Intern @ Brookhaven National Laboratory Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Upton, New York, United States Worked on a project to derive causal inferences from time series data of sea-surface temperatures as part of the Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships (SULI) program. Developed a framework to use linear and nonlinear Granger-Causality, as well as PCMCI techniques, to identify potential causal relationships, and benchmarked these techniques against datasets with known relationships. Wrote a formal research paper on this work and presented a poster on my findings. ### Big Red Tutor @ Cornell University Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Ithaca, New York, United States Tutored student athletes in subjects such as calculus, discrete mathematics, macroeconomics, and computer science. ### Sales Consultant @ Vector Marketing Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Fort Myers, Florida, United States Created a network of customers, arranged and then conducted sales meetings, entered and tracked shipping and orders, completed 15 hours of sales training, and sold over $3,000 worth of kitchen products. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science Cornell University Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/evan-vera-7620451a6 --- Source: https://flows.cv/evanvera JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/evanvera/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-01