Aaron Yalong standing on a sandstone ledge above a red-rock canyon

Aaron Yalong

  • Junior Software Engineer at Intuitive Machines
  • M.S. Artificial Intelligence at San José State University
Resume

Get to know me

I'm a software engineer at Intuitive Machines, where I build an agentic AI desktop application on Claude for aerospace engineering teams, and I'm working toward an M.S. in Artificial Intelligence at San José State. I'm drawn to LLM systems that show their work: retrieval that cites its sources, agents that use real tools, and evaluations that check whether any of it actually helps. Before AI, I studied computer science and engineering at UC Irvine, building compilers, processors, and embedded systems.

Experience

  1. Junior Software Engineer Intuitive Machines

    – Present

    CurrentContract · Part-time

    Supports the company's AI initiatives and enterprise software applications.

    • Scala
    • LangChain4j
    • Claude

  2. Software Engineer Intern Lanteris Space Systems

    –

    Internship

    Lanteris was acquired by Intuitive Machines, and the role continued there.

  3. AI Trainer Handshake AI

    –

    Contract

    LLM output evaluation.

  4. Junior Software Developer Luminexa

    –

    Contributed to the team's software development.

    • Spring Boot
    • React

Education

  1. M.S. Artificial Intelligence San José State University

    Expected

    Relevant coursework: Machine Learning · Deep Learning · Natural Language Processing · Cloud Technologies · Enterprise Software · Data Mining

    Projects: Logbook · Autonomous Vehicle Cloud Platform

  2. B.S. Computer Science & Engineering University of California, Irvine

    GPA 3.8 · Cum Laude

    Relevant coursework: Compilers · Operating Systems · Computer Architecture

    Coursework

Projects

  • Oracle's Ask panel in Obsidian, showing a cited answer and its numbered sources.

    Oracle

    Fully local cited Q&A over Obsidian notes.

    0.90held-out top-3 search score with hybrid search, vs 0.80 vector-only

    • Python
    • Ollama
    • Chroma
    • FastAPI

  • Logbook answering a question about landing-gear errors, each claim citing a report ID.

    Logbook

    Grounded Q&A over 3,080 NASA aviation maintenance safety reports, with every cited report ID checked.

    22/22valid filter tool calls from Claude in the model screening

    • Python
    • DuckDB
    • BM25
    • fastembed

  • Alfred's pipeline: ingest course files, flag diagram pages for Claude vision, then generate and check questions.

    Alfred

    Turns course files (PDF, PPTX, DOCX) into practice questions, each citing an exact quote that code checks is on the cited page.

    37/37benchmark facts recovered with Claude vision, vs 10/37 from text alone

    • Python
    • Pydantic
    • Claude API
    • pypdfium2

  • Three CodeBreaker screens: the mode and difficulty menu, a solved game board of colored pegs with feedback dots, and Player 1 setting a secret code.

    CodeBreaker

    Mastermind in the browser, rewritten in TypeScript from a Python terminal game, with four difficulty levels and two-player pass-and-play.

    • TypeScript
    • Vite
    • Vitest
    • GitHub Actions

    RepositoryPlay in browser

  • AV Cloud Platform fleet dashboard: a tenant's vehicle list with online status, and one vehicle's live speed chart, acknowledged pull-over commands and collision events.

    Autonomous Vehicle Cloud Platform

    Multi-tenant cloud platform for simulated autonomous vehicles, from CARLA telemetry to hazard alerts on a fleet dashboard.

    • Python
    • FastAPI
    • PostgreSQL
    • MongoDB

Hobbies & Interests

A few things I'm into outside work. Click a pin to check it out.

  • Linux
  • Travel
  • AI agents
  • Stocks