Question 1

What should I call you?

Accepted Answer

My name is Michael Harley, but most people call me Em.

Question 2

Where are you based?

Accepted Answer

San Francisco, California. I work at Pacific Fusion in San Leandro.

Question 3

Where did you study?

Accepted Answer

American University in Washington, D.C., where I earned a B.S. in Computer Science in 2016.

Question 4

What kind of engineering do you do?

Accepted Answer

Full-stack: React, Next.js, and TypeScript on the front end, Go and Python on the back end, deployed on AWS. Over the past few years I have focused on putting AI and LLMs into production.

Question 5

What do you work on at Pacific Fusion?

Accepted Answer

I'm a Senior Full Stack Developer building the front-end interfaces and end-to-end data flow for the pulser factory hardware testing systems behind Pacific Fusion's inertial fusion Demonstration System. That means Kafka and MQTT streaming pipelines, time-series and SQL storage, and working closely with fusion scientists.

Question 6

What languages do you use?

Accepted Answer

Go, Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, C#, and SQL (mostly PostgreSQL).

Question 7

What has your AI work involved?

Accepted Answer

LLM triage in a customer-service queue that cut wait time from 7 minutes to 2, LLM-generated Medicare-compliant documents (more than 2 million), an ML redaction engine for medical documents, and sentiment analysis of 100,000+ public comments on government regulations.

Question 8

Can I see your resume?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Use the Resume button at the top of any page to download a PDF.

Question 9

What's the best way to reach you?

Accepted Answer

Send a message through the contact form, or connect with me on LinkedIn.