💻 Computer Science Student | ML Researcher | DevOps & Embedded Systems Enthusiast
🎖 Marine Corps Veteran | 📍 Texas
I’m a final-year Computer Science student at UTSA with a focus on AI, distributed systems, and edge computing,
actively pursuing graduate studies in machine learning and distributed computing.
My work bridges machine learning, DevOps, and embedded systems, leveraging high-performance computing and cloud automation to optimize AI workflows.
🚀 Distributed ML Research – Optimizing AI model inference on Jetson & Pi clusters.
🩻 Fracture Detection CNN – Trained a TensorFlow model to analyze X-ray images.
📊 MLflow Experimentation Server – Running JupyterLab + MLflow on a dedicated ML rig (RTX 4080).
☁️ Self-Hosted DevOps Stack – Managing cloud infrastructure & databases with Docker & Proxmox.
📌 Current Projects
- 🚀 DeepLabv3-VOS – Researching video object segmentation for Cloudsys Lab at UTSA.
- 🖥️ Deeplabv3-Pi-Test – Optimizing DeepLabV3 for Raspberry Pis, as the full VOS variant was too heavy.
- 🚗 YOLOv8-Vehicle-Analysis – Deep Learning research project analyzing vehicle detection and tracking.
- 🛠️ raspberrypi-lab-setup – Ansible playbooks to automate lab setup, installations, and configurations.
📚 Currently Learning
🎓 Coursera: Machine Learning Specialization
- ✅ Advanced Learning Algorithms (Completed)
- ✅ Supervised Machine Learning: Regression and Classification (Completed)
- 🚧 Unsupervised Learning, Recommenders, Reinforcement Learning (In Progress)
🛠️ Boot.dev Backend Developer Courses
- ✅ Learn to Code in Python (Completed)
- ✅ Learn Linux (Completed)
- ✅ Learn Git (Completed)
- ✅ Build a Bookbot (Completed)
- ✅ Learn Object-Oriented Programming (Completed)
- 🚧 Build Asteroids (In Progress)
- 🚧 Learn Functional Programming (In Progress)
🎓 Education
🎓 University of Texas at San Antonio – B.S. in Computer Science, December 2024
📚 Current Courses:
- Deep Learning
- Distributed Systems
- CURE - CS Course-Based UG Research
- Undergraduate Reseach at Cloudsys Lab
📌 Completed Courses:
- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning
- Data Mining
- Data Science
- Embedded Systems
📍 GitHub: github.com/Foley-ops
🔗 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/nicholasmfoley