Tyler Mestery

AI/ML Engineer
swe intern @ farmchemprev mle intern @ ciscoprev researcher @ isu x google deepmind
Iowa State University · B.S. CS · May 2027
MN + IAtyler@mestery.comGitHubLinkedIn
61 repositories · 5 followers

Projects

TrailCamMachine Learning for wildlife species classification from camera-trap imagery.
postfolioShare your trades. Watch the market together. AI Agents for trading.
SPECTRESelf-coordinating Penetration and Exploit Crew for Threat Research and Exposure.
rider-qlearningA Q-Learning Reinforcement Learning Agent for the Game Rider.
mphart/classroom-companionReal-time lecture assistant with live captions, in-session AI copilots, and auto-generated study material.
SONiC-RCAThe 1st dataset, benchmark, and CLI tool for automated root-cause triage of SONiC test failures, using SLMs and RAG.

Experience

Software Engineer Intern

FarmChem
Aug 2026 — Present · Ames, IA
Building an in-house SCADA/HMI platform to run automation company-wide, alongside real-time data pipelines that turn CAD layouts into live visualizations across 10+ sites.

AI Machine Learning Engineer Intern

Cisco
May 2026 — Aug 2026 · San Francisco, CA
Built an agentic AI platform that turns security vulnerabilities into mitigation policies in minutes instead of hours.

Systems & Infrastructure Technician

Iowa State University
Jul 2025 — Apr 2026 · Ames, IA
Kept 200+ faculty up and running by owning IT support, imaging, and infrastructure for campus labs and offices.

Machine Learning Researcher

Iowa State University
Oct 2025 — Jan 2026 · Ames, IA
Built and evaluated an end-to-end pipeline using LLMs to translate ML code from PyTorch to JAX, benchmarking multiple models to validate translation accuracy.

AI Systems Researcher

Iowa State University / Google DeepMind
Aug 2025 — Nov 2025 · Ames, IA
Built a benchmark testing how well LLMs translate code across 5 languages, then deployed it to run at scale on Google Cloud.