Hi! My name is

Ross McIlvaine

I'm a software engineer from Stony Brook, New York, working at the intersection of full-stack development and applied machine learning. I'm currently pursuing a Master's Degree in Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign while living in Chicago, and I graduate in May 2027. My interest in statistics and data analysis first introduced me to software engineering, but my love of problem solving drove me to pursue it as a career. I'm passionate about designing and building software that enhances people's lives, and I'm especially excited about AI research and development. After graduation I'm looking for a software engineering role in New York City where I can keep learning and make a real impact.

I graduated from the University of Notre Dame in May of 2022 with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering. At school I was introduced to Gaelic Sports and I joined the Notre Dame Boxing Club. Besides Notre Dame athletics I'm a die hard Yankee fan, and I love to complain about the Giants when football season comes around. Outside of work I like going on runs around the lakes and playing golf on the weekends. I also enjoy reading and experimenting in the kitchen when I'm not outside.

Following graduation I spent two years working at Epic Systems as a developer on the data warehousing team. Most of my work went towards our in-house data ingestion tool, but I got opportunities to lead new development to support foreign-key functionality as well. My experience at Epic taught me a lot about adapting to product timelines and the demands of industry standards.

Most recently, I spent the summer of 2026 as an AI Development Intern on Chamberlain Group's AI Software Engineering team. There I fine-tuned a vehicle re-identification model, built a 900-video ground-truth dataset, and designed the pipeline we used to evaluate retrieval accuracy.

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EXPERIENCE

Where I've worked

Chamberlain Group

AI Development Intern | May 2026 - August 2026

  • Fine-tuned an OSNet re-identification model, achieving 58% mAP and 51% Rank-1 on a deliberately hard evaluation set
  • Built a ground-truth dataset of 900 videos spanning 600 unique vehicle IDs from company video data
  • Designed and implemented the evaluation pipeline benchmarking mAP and Rank-1 retrieval metrics
  • Engineered a gallery maintenance algorithm that dynamically updates the vehicle database as new detections occur
  • Optimized model inference for cost efficiency alongside retrieval accuracy
  • Tattle

    AI Development Intern | January 2025 - July 2025

  • Collaborated with the AI Development team to design and create classification and matching APIs for customer data
  • Managed prompt engineering efforts during development to minimize token use and maximize the precision of the model
  • Built unit test functions in C# to quickly compare the performance of multiple models against many datasets
  • Carson Optical

    Website Developer | January 2025 - July 2025

  • Acted as lead developer for a new product comparison tool using React and C#
  • Coordinated multiple initiatives to overhaul visuals and improve performance metrics across the site
  • Ensured internationalization of all new site development using i18nexus
  • Epic Systems

    Full Stack Developer | August 2022 - August 2024

  • Spearheaded new functionality to create foreign key joins between external datasets and Epic’s data model
  • Led UI and API development for a data integration application serving over 5,000 users
  • Conducted SQL performance and code review for development projects across the company
  • Design features for applications serving a large user base, ensuring optimal performance and user experience
  • PROJECTS

    What I've built

    Drug Interaction Database

    Capstone Project

  • Researched clinical drug-interaction challenges and gathered data sources to define the problem space
  • Designed a Neo4j graph schema and authored Cypher queries to model complex drug relationships
  • Led UI design so non-technical users can explore potential adverse drug reactions
  • View on GitHub

    This Website

    Personal Portfolio

  • Using Svelte framework with TypeScript and Tailwind CSS to build web app from scratch
  • Designed and developed clean, reactive, and modular components
  • Deployed to web using Cloudflare Pages
  • Campus Wayzz

    Databases Application Project

  • Worked on team to build a campus discovery mobile application using MongoDB, React, Node.js, and Google APIs
  • Designed systems to promote user interaction, engagement, and collaboration
  • Built frontend UI for new user registration and secure login
  • Tweet Classification

    Machine Learning Project

  • Used decision tree algorithms to identify an individual's political affiliation based on tweet history
  • Gathered and cleaned relevant datasets for more accurate modeling
  • Created graphic visualizations of results for presentation
  • EDUCATION

    Where I've learned

    University of Notre Dame

    Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering | August 2018 - May 2022

  • GPA: 3.8
  • Dean's List (4)
  • Graduated Cum Laude
  • University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    Master of Computer Science | August 2025 - May 2027 (Expected)

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