Jonathan Ballona Sanchez

AI Engineer from Bay Area, CA

Building Fast, Shipping Fast. Cracked engineer who lives to learn.

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Skills

Headstarter AI Logo

Jul 2024- Present

Software Engineering Resident

Headstarter AI

• Crafted and deployed 5+ AI apps using RAG, OpenAI, Pinecone, and Stripe, achieving 98% accuracy with 450+ total users

• Developed a support agent with RAG, OpenAI, and Pinecone, handling 1,000+ queries weekly, boosting accuracy by 40%

• Led a team of 4 engineers using MVC patterns and agile, dedicating 60+ hours to complete 14 projects in 2-week sprints

Pixeland Technologies Inc Logo

Jul 2024 - Sep 2024

Software Engineering Intern

Pixeland Technologies Inc

• Created a scalable virtual office platform with React, Redux, and Firebase, boosting engagement by 30% across 10 teams

• Engineered real-time sync with Firebase, improving interactions for 2,000+ users with 20% reduced latency

• Developed WebRTC server with Express, optimizing video calls, cutting setup time by 30%, and supporting 500+ calls daily

Lob Logo

Feb 2024 - Apr 2024

Software Engineering Intern

Lob

• Implemented authentication system with React and Auth0, reducing unauthorized access by 20% for 10,000+ users

• Optimized PostgreSQL and ExpressJS queries, reducing response time by 50% for 5,000+ active users

• Enhanced React components and ExpressJS code, improving page load times by 15% for 7,500+ users

Sweep Logo

Jul 2023 - Dec 2023

Software Engineering Intern

Sweep

• Built automated document processing application with Docker and Flask, boosting efficiency by 40% for 1,000+ PDFs daily

• Integrated gpt-3.5 turbo powered virtual assistant for data insights, reducing errors by 20% in 3,000+ reviews weekly

• Devised a text compression algorithm, cutting file sizes by 30% and increasing speed by 40% for 2,000+ transfers daily

Open Avenues (Remix Labs) Logo

Jun 2023 - Aug 2023

Software Engineering Intern

Open Avenues (Remix Labs)

• Connected 5+ external APIs using the RemixBuilder no-code platform, unlocking access to over 10k data points weekly

• Automated data analysis tasks via RemixBuilder’s no-code interface, reducing manual report preparation time by 15%

• Implemented automated data validation rules with RemixBuilder’s tools, improving data accuracy by 30%

Featured Projects

VALLM Dash

VALLM

LLM Evaluation on real web content

Pentagram Dash

Pentagram

AI Image Generating Social Media Platform

Recent Posts

Evaluating LLM Responses with RAG and DeepEval

Built a scalable API for evaluation 6+ LLM responses based off of scraped content

Apr 2025

Building an Efficient Image Generation API with Modal, FastAPI, and Quantization

Built a fast, scalable API for image creation in <2 seconds using Modal’s A100 GPUs

Dec 2024