# James Quintero

> Software Engineer at Google

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jamesquintero

Experienced Machine Learning Engineer with range of successful ML projects, ranging from time series prediction with the stock market, sports game outcome prediction, DDoS attack detection, chatbot creation, and medical imaging classification. Skilled in Python, Machine Learning techniques, Java, Back-end development, and C++  - MS in Computer Science from UC Irvine, graduation in Dec 2019.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2021 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States
* Full-stack engineer cross-functional collaboration, working on Google Assistant backend, Android Auto Projected front-end, and LLMs. 
* Led the LLM training data creation, fine-tuning, and evaluation of LLM models to improve their accuracy from 50% to 90%. 
* Led key engineering contributions in developing AI-driven features impacting over 500k users monthly.

### Software Development Engineer @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Palo Alto, California, United States
Full stack engineer on AWS Audit Manager team, utilizing Java, Python, React, Typescript, and several AWS services. 
Worked on frontend UX to successfully finish and get approved for General Availability, and worked on backend and operations to successfully prepare for a smooth General Availability launch on schedule.
Excelled as Scrum Master for 6 consecutive months, including during service launch, for a team of 10 engineers.
Developed several RESTful customer facing APIs, end-to-end, including unit tests and integration tests.

### Machine Learning Engineer Volunteer @ Center for Artificial Intelligence in Diagnostic Medicine (CAIDM)
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Irvine, California
Developer/Researcher of computer vision system that detects Pneumothorax in medical imaging x-rays, utilizing CNN and U-Net, and many different machine learning techniques in regards to image preprocessing and model training.

### Junior Software Engineer @ ThreatHunter.ai
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Orange County, California Area
o Quickly designed, developed, and tested production features. 
o Learned and developed in new Bro Analysis Framework and its programming language for use in company products.

### Junior Software Engineer @ ThreatHunter.ai
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016
o Invented novel method of detecting Physical Keyloggers, becoming an important selling point in company product.
o Quickly developed ASP.NET features for the production version of a company product, and finished way ahead of schedule.
o Wrote C/C# programs and handled USB drivers for detecting Physical Keyloggers.

### Junior Software Engineer @ ThreatHunter.ai
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
o Team leader and mentor to 2 other interns
o Added features to a USB device handler in C# that utilized windows services, TCP requests, and queried SQL databases.


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science
UC Irvine
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
San Francisco State University
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018

### Associate of Science (A.S.) in Mathematics
Fullerton College
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/james-quintero
- Website: https://jamesquintero.com
- GitHub: https://github.com/JamesQuintero

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Last updated: 2026-03-22