Resume

Tyler Mestery

Machine Learning Engineer Intern

Computer Science student at Iowa State University and Machine Learning Engineer Intern at Cisco on the Secure CTO & HyperScale AI Teams. I build ML pipelines for WAF threat mitigations, multi-agent RAG systems on Kubernetes and AWS, and full-stack products for real users.

Education

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Iowa State University

August 2024 — Expected May 2027 · Ames, IA

Relevant coursework: Data Structures & Algorithms, Object-Oriented Programming and Design, Software Development Practices, Computer Architecture, Computational Structures, AI Ethics

Experience

Work history

Machine Learning Engineer Intern

Cisco

May 2026 — Present · San Jose, CA

  • Working at the intersection of AI and Cybersecurity on the Secure CTO & HyperScale AI Teams.
  • Developing a machine learning pipeline for generating mitigations against Web Application Firewall (WAF) threats.
  • Architecting multi-agent AI systems using DeepAgents and RAG-based LLM pipelines, deployed on Kubernetes and AWS infrastructure.

Information Technology Support Specialist

Iowa State University

July 2025 — April 2026 · Ames, IA

  • Provided technical support for faculty, troubleshooted hardware, software, and network issues in labs and offices.
  • Managed IT inventory, system setup, imaging, deployments, and user account/software maintenance tasks.

Undergraduate Researcher (Machine Learning)

Iowa State University Department of Computer Science

October 2025 — January 2026 · Ames, IA

  • Built an end-to-end automated code transformation pipeline that translates PyTorch ML workloads into JAX, coordinating staged validation and generation using Hugging Face LLMs.
  • Evaluated instruction-tuned LLMs (Qwen, CodeLlama, Mistral) and validated correctness of generated JAX code.

Undergraduate Researcher (AI Systems)

Iowa State University / Collaboration with Google DeepMind

August 2025 — November 2025 · Ames, IA

  • Built CodeClip, a benchmark evaluating LLM performance in multi-turn, preference-driven code translation.
  • Developed automation scripts and workflows using Docker, AI APIs, and data pipelines for scalable experiments.
  • Deployed on Google Cloud to run Piston for automated compilation and unit testing.

Projects

Selected projects

Classroom Companion (SwanHacks)

Spring 2026

TypeScript · React · Express.js · MySQL · Deepgram · Docker · Git

  • Engineered a real-time lecture pipeline using Deepgram (English) and Gladia (multilingual) over WebSocket, with in-session AI tools including live Q&A, a jargon glossary co-pilot, and slide-deck sync.
  • Integrated Google Gemini to generate structured summaries, flashcards, and graded practice exams from lecture recordings, PDFs, and YouTube videos.

SONiC Lab

December 2025 — January 2026

Go · Docker · Linux · SONiC · Bash · CI/CD · Open Source

  • Developed a Go-based automation tool to generate docker-compose.yml files from user-defined topology and interface inputs, simplifying SONiC test deployments using docker-sonic-vs.
  • Refactored and extended a Go-based generator using the Cobra CLI framework, improving usability, input validation, and extensibility, while contributing enhanced lab setup workflows through Bash automation.

Skills

Technical skills

Languages

Go · Python · C · Bash · TypeScript · Java · SQL (PostgreSQL)

Networking & Systems

SONiC · Linux · Docker · Kubernetes · REST APIs · GraphQL · CI/CD

AI/ML

PyTorch · JAX · NumPy · Pandas · Hugging Face Transformers · LangChain · Ollama · LLM APIs

Cloud & Infrastructure

AWS · Google Cloud Platform

Cybersecurity

Network Security · Threat Analysis · Secure Systems Design