Drew Bury

About Drew Bury

Christian, Husband, Father, and Engineer who loves building.I\'ve spent the last 5+ years across the full spectrum of AI and data science, from publishing NLP research and training transformer models at SMU, to shipping production ML systems at KPMG, to co-founding Opti Metabolics where I wear every hat from infrastructure to product. I\'m most energized when I\'m deep in the weeds on a hard problem, whether that\'s designing a RAG architecture, optimizing a search system, or standing up a Kubernetes cluster.I study computer science because I genuinely love it, the elegance of a good algorithm, the satisfaction of watching a model converge, the challenge of making something work at scale. That curiosity has taken me from graph neural networks and text-to-SQL research to building HIPAA-compliant health platforms and generative AI tools for the enterprise and federal government.Always happy to connect, especially if you\'re working on something interesting in AI/ML, tech, or the natural sciences.

Experience

1. Co-founder

   Opti Metabolics

   Jan 2025 — Present · Austin, TX, US

   Architected and deployed a HIPAA-compliant full-stack AI platform on AWS with Kubernetes, powering multi-modal interfaces (text messaging and real-time voice chat) for Opti Members and coaches.Designed and deployed a RAG pipeline to ground LLM responses in user-specific metabolic data, ensuring accurate, personalized health insights with low hallucination rates.Implemented voice-to-text and text-to-voice pipelines enabling natural language interaction with the AI health coaching system.Developed a chronic disease risk model using Cox proportional hazards and independent hazard ratios, synthesizing biomarker data to generate personalized health risk scores.Built analytics pipeline to track user engagement metrics, retention cohorts, and health outcome improvements across user populations. Designed A/B testing framework to validate intervention effectiveness and optimize user experience based on behavioral data. Created executive dashboards tracking key business metrics including user acquisition funnels, engagement rates, and long-term retention.

Education

• Stanford University School of Engineering

  XCS234: Reinforcement Learning, Mathematics and Computer Science

• Baylor University

  Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science

• Southern Methodist University

  Master of Science - MS, Computer Science