Iain Ramirez

Systems Engineering @ UVA | Research Assistant (Data & ML) | Ex. NASA Embedded Systems | Web & Automation Developer

About Me

I’m a Systems Engineering student at the University of Virginia, pursuing minors in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics. My work bridges data, systems, and human impact, from GroqCloud-based pipelines for language-model evaluation and bioinformatics workflows for cardiovascular modeling, to web systems serving thousands of users.

I currently contribute to research under Professors Hudson Golino and Stefan Bekiranov, where I’m developing reproducible, high-performance machine-learning pipelines and learning deep-learning methods on UVA’s HPC cluster.

Outside the lab, I run a freelance web-automation consultancy and lead U.S. growth for FightSignal, an international MMA analytics startup with 5000 members. I also founded FighterForecast.com, an ML-powered fight-prediction platform that achieved 66% accuracy and 20,000+ views.

Skills

Experience

Paid Research Assistant – Dr. Hudson Golino

University of Virginia | 2025 – Present

Designed a GroqCloud-based pipeline for automated agentic text-data extraction using OSS-120B, generating a 90,000-document synthetic corpus with controlled linguistic variation. Engineered LLM evaluation workflow benchmarking extraction accuracy against ground-truth labels using Python and R. Co-authoring Journal of Statistical Software paper on statistical validation methodology.

Research Assistant – Dr. Stefan Bekiranov

UVA School of Medicine | 2025 – Present

Training in deep learning and UVA’s high-performance computer (HPC) for applications in bioinformatics. Supporting the ProtoCell4P project by studying architecture design, model reproducibility, and pipeline setup for SNP-based cardiovascular modeling.

Freelance Web Developer & Web Consultant

2024 – 2025

Advised and delivered websites for UVA Grappling, UVA Muay Thai, UVA Girls Who Lift, Plushies for Patients, and Sidwell Friends School Baseball, supporting 3000+ members and generating 8000+ requests in the first month of launch. Built automated signup and scheduling systems (PHP, SQL, TailwindCSS) that replaced manual workflows, saving exec boards 4+ hours per week and enabling scalable operations.

Automation Consultant – Golf Mission Tour

Summer 2025

Rebuilt company website (PHP/HTML/CSS), increasing traffic from ~150 visits to 1000+ monthly. Automated Excel workflows with Python, saving 2+ hours of manual reporting per week.

AI/ML Intern – Setty & Associates

Jan 2023 – Aug 2023

Built predictive ML pipelines in Python for part-failure forecasting, improving reliability insights. Prototyped LLM ingestion (LlamaIndex) for a searchable database of building standards. Contributed to UI/UX of Syyclops, a digital-twin monitoring app, using React.

Software Intern – Embedded Flight Systems Institute (NASA Contractor)

Summer 2022

Debugged and tested flight software in Linux VMs, validating reliability fixes that streamlined satellite build processes. Collaborated with engineers on system-level testing to strengthen mission-critical software integrity.

Chess Coach – Silver Knights

Summer 2025

Coached groups of 10–60 students, fostering critical thinking, strategic growth, and teamwork through competitive chess.

Projects

FighterForecast.com

2025 – Present

Founded an ML-powered UFC fight prediction platform. Built an end-to-end pipeline with 8,000+ fights and 40+ features, improving accuracy from 50% to 66% and simulating 10%+ annual ROI via Kelly models. Deployed as a PHP/Tailwind web app, gaining 200+ followers and 20K+ social views, and attracting interest from faculty and industry.

fighterforecast.com

BAPS Consulting – MD Ortho Systems

2025 – Present

Collaborating with a 6-person consulting team to improve adoption of a telemedicine platform. Conducting client needs assessments, testing delivery methods, and designing data-driven recommendations to enhance patient and employee engagement.

Education

University of Virginia – B.S. Systems Engineering | Minors: Computer Science & Applied Mathematics | (Dean’s List)

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