Introduction
Software engineer and AI researcher building advanced systems for complex data problems.

Hello, I'm Monroe Stephenson. I'm a Founding Engineer at Cloudsquid building high-performance data infrastructure for AI systems. I specialize in architecting real-time, event-driven pipelines and cloud-native solutions using Go, gRPC, Kafka, and AWS.
My background combines software engineering with machine learning research, supported by strong foundations in mathematics and statistics. This interdisciplinary approach helps me design interpretable AI systems and transform unstructured data into valuable insights.
I'm currently pursuing my M.S. in Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology, focusing on Distributed Systems, Cloud Computing, and Advanced Machine Learning. Previously, I conducted research on ML interpretability as a Fulbright Scholar at the Max Planck Institute.
Work Experience
My professional journey building scalable software solutions and AI systems across Europe and remotely.
Cloudsquid
Berlin, GermanyFounding Engineer
•Apr 2024 - Present
Architecting and optimizing real-time, event-driven AI data pipelines in Go, enhancing observability and explainability for large-scale unstructured data processing. Building high-throughput systems with gRPC, Kafka, and ClickHouse, enabling scalable infrastructure for ML model deployment and monitoring. Driving technical strategy with the founding team, shaping product direction and ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance from prototype to production.
Project Eaden
Berlin, GermanySoftware Engineer
•Aug 2024 - Apr 2025
Implemented advanced ML models (PyTorch, TensorFlow) for high-dimensional data analysis in food tech R&D, improving predictive accuracy of product performance by 25%. Deployed scalable APIs (FastAPI, gRPC) and CICD pipelines on AWS (Terraform, Docker), reducing model iteration cycles from days to hours. Led cross-functional collaborations, integrating complex ML pipelines with business metrics, contributing to a 15% reduction in production costs.
Telis Energy
RemoteSoftware Engineering Intern (Research & Analytics)
•Mar 2024 - Oct 2024
Developed Python and PyQGIS scripts automating wind turbine layouts, enabling data-driven site planning and boosting renewable energy output efficiency by 30%. Implemented large-scale data ingestion and transformation pipelines (Apache Spark, Airflow) to handle multimodal datasets, accelerating environmental simulations by 40%.
Max Planck Institute MiS
Leipzig, GermanyMachine Learning Researcher (Fulbright Scholarship)
•Fall 2023 - Fall 2024
Pioneered research on non-independent component analysis and interpretability in algebraic statistics for complex ML systems. Published findings in top-tier statistics journals (e.g., under review at Algebraic Statistics), presented at international conferences.
Projects
Open-source projects I've created and contributed to.
Research
Academic research exploring algebraic machine learning, statistical theory, and mathematical foundations.
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences (MPI MiS)
Supervisor: Bernd Sturmfels
Funded by Fulbright Research Grant
My research focused on algebraic machine learning and statistical theory, particularly on non-independent component analysis and graphical models. This work led to the publication of Partitioned Independent Component Analysis, which is available on arXiv.
We prove that the Gorensteinification of the face ring of a cycle is totally p-anisotropic in characteristic p. In other words, given an appropriate Artinian reduction, it contains no nonzero p-isotropic elements. Moreover, we prove that the linear system of parameters can be chosen corresponding to a geometric realization with points on the moment curve. In particular, this implies that the parameters do not have to be chosen very generically.
Supervisor: Jennifer Kenkel, Janet Page, Daniel Smolkin
Funded by Karen Smith's NSF grant DMS-1801697
Our research focused on the differential power operation on ideals. We identified a class of monomial ideals in characteristic 0 whose differential powers are eventually principal. We also explored the containment problem between ordinary and differential powers of ideals and introduced a novel closure operation, called differential closure, which agrees with taking the radical of an ideal in simple D-modules.
Supervisor: Christof Teuscher
Collaborated with Art Duval from UTEP
Created as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic
I collaborated with Art Duval from UTEP on applying the Abelian Sandpile Model to DDoS mitigation. This project led to an ongoing publication titled, 'Analyzing Network Topology for DDoS Mitigation Using the Abelian Sandpile Model.'
Supervisor: Andrew Whitbeck
I worked in the Experimental High-Energy Particle department, contributing to the LDMX project. My work included SketchUp design, data collection from oscilloscopes, scintillators, and PMTs, and data analysis using Python. The project also involved designing and modifying electrical circuits.
Travel Photography
A collection of nature photographs I've taken during my travels.
"Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you." — Frank Lloyd Wright

Mount Hood
Oregon, USA

Snowy Mount Hood
Oregon, USA

Reed College Canyon
Portland, Oregon

Reed Cherry Blossoms
Portland, Oregon

Winter at Reed
Portland, Oregon

Budapest
Hungary

Oregon Shipwreck
Oregon Coast, USA

Arizona
USA

Jerusalem North
Israel

Western Wall
Jerusalem, Israel

Rome
Italy

Venice Canal
Italy

Chicago
Illinois, USA

Jerusalem Hostel
Jerusalem, Israel

Jerusalem South
Israel

Malibu
California, USA

Olympic National Waterfall
Washington, USA

Oregon Coast Eagle Point
Oregon, USA

Oregon Coast
Oregon, USA

Portland Overview
Oregon, USA

Redwood Forest
California, USA

Rome Vista
Italy

Rostock
Germany

Schwarzwald (Black Forest)
Germany
Stein am Rhein
Switzerland

Tel Aviv
Israel

Trout Lake
Washington, USA

Vancouver Island River
British Columbia, Canada
Contact
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Let's Connect
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