{"id":653,"date":"2025-05-19T20:10:22","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T20:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alvaro-varela.com\/?page_id=653"},"modified":"2025-05-26T23:11:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T23:11:03","slug":"aml100-dev-1-pittsburgh-pa","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/alvaro-varela.com\/index.php\/sample-page\/aml100-dev-1-pittsburgh-pa\/","title":{"rendered":"AML100-DEV-1 (2023)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1060\" height=\"1413\" src=\"https:\/\/alvaro-varela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20230801_152014.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-637\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alvaro-varela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20230801_152014.jpg 1060w, https:\/\/alvaro-varela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20230801_152014-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/alvaro-varela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20230801_152014-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/alvaro-varela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/20230801_152014-650x866.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1060px) 100vw, 1060px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-left\">Background<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">I designed a platform to enable machine learning algorithm development by Aspinity&#8217;s ML engineers. 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