Experience
Cardinal Labs - 
New York, NY
Spring 2022​ - Summer 2023​
Co-founder, Engineering and Product

  • Worked on the cutting-edge to scale Solana blockchain via smart-contracts (rust), app development (react, typescript) and related cloud infrastructure
  • With a team of 5, built and launched 15+ smart contracts, SDKs, and products, reached 6m+ transactions, 150k+ unique users, and 40k MAU
  • Led and built our core events product from idea to 20+ customers utilizing our application

TigerTalk - 
Remote
November 2019​ - May 2021​
Co-Founder & CTO

  • Designed, developed, and scaled communications coaching software combining human feedback and AI
  • Built a client management platform (react) with conversational intelligence and audio/video analysis (python, aws) serverless architecture
  • Conducted 300+ user interviews to validate and research hypotheses, 30K in beta revenue from speech & debate programs and training firms 

TheCodex - 
San Jose, CA
June 2017​ - May 2021​
Founder

  • Built an ed-tech platform helping students learn Python through projects (react, gatsby), led platform growth to 400 weekly new users, 10K+ users worldwide
  • Managed a team of 5 to create our project-based platform from idea to launch in 4 months
  • Recorded over 300 hours of content for distribution, 1 million+ students on Udemy, 16 courses, 75K+ subs on YouTube

Blend - 
Remote
Summer 2021​
Product Management (Intern)

  • Mapped the customer journey for the home buying process to discover problems Blend could innovate in
  • Led product interviews and customer calls, outlined and explored 20+ ideas with analysis of workflow, features, and competitors
  • Presented learnings to management and recommended the top 3 ideas for Blend to focus on
Cal Hacks - 
Berkeley, CA
January 2019​ - December 2020​
Executive Director

  • Led a 26-person director team to pivot and spearhead 2 new virtual initiatives during the height of the pandemic 
  • Launched a 2,000-person global hackathon (hack:now) in just 4 weeks
  • Experimented with Hack Month, a month-long side project hackathon implementing high-touch interaction and cohorts
  • Taught Cubstart iOS for 2 years, built curriculum, and recorded lectures 

Amazon - 
Remote
Summer 2020​
Software Engineer (Intern)

  • Automatically extrapolated insights from large datasets through graph theory modeling and clustering algorithms (python)
  • Deployed serverless architecture (aws lambda, aws s3), Discovery of insights from large datasets became 90% more efficient 

Apple - 
Cupertino, CA
Summer 2019​
Software Engineer (Intern)

  • Increased efficiency of News Preview tool by 95% through updated backend integration (swift)
  • Developed on-device preview that improved ease of access for hundreds of publishers and developers, effectively worked with a cross-functional team to upgrade News Preview

Awards
Accel Scholar Accel
April 2021
Contrary Fellow Contrary Capital
June 2021
3rd Place Overall Cal Hacks
October 2018
Regents and Chancellor's Scholarship UC Berkeley

August 2018

Best Microsoft Hack / Most Popular Hack / Top 30 NWHacks

January 2018

Top 10 Overall / Best Educational Hack PennApps XV

January 2017

Education
University of California, Berkeley
Majored in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Top <1% of all UC Berkeley students (Regents Scholar)
GPA: 3.78
Graduated Fall 2021
Skills
Software Development: Python, Swift, Objective-C, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, NextJS, SQL, C/C++, Java, Full Stack Development, iOS Development, Machine Learning
Platforms / Packages: Numpy, Pandas, Flask, Django, SKLearn, MatPlotLib, Firebase, Supabase, Selenium, BeautifulSoup, AWS S3, AWS Lambda, AWS EC2, LangChain
Tools: Figma, Amplitude, Google Analytics, HotJar, ConvertKit
Projects
Melt Labs
September 2023​ - December 2023​

  • Built an AI dubbing tool for creators and instructors to launch content in different languages (nextJS, typescript, python, stripe)
  • Developed a dubbing pipeline that used state-of-the-art transcription, custom translations with GPT prompting, and voice-cloned audio generation (openAI, langchain, whisper, wav2vec)
  • Created tools to offer both white-gloved and self-service dubbing, wrote scripts for Udemy uploading (python), 
  • Launched over 30 dubbed courses and processed hundreds of hours of content for customers, worked with Phil Ebiner, Diego Davila and FreeCodeCamp

Gumball

  • Built an interactive Python coding exercise platform with fully generated content
  • Created a generative pipeline of exercises (openAI, langchain) to produce the question text, solutions, test cases and hints
  • Built an integrated editor and chatbot (nextJS, firebase) to solve exercises, provide real-time help, and track progress

SyncUp

*Won 3rd Place at CalHacks

  • Built a web platform that performed real-time analysis on dance videos and gave feedback when compared to videos of an expert
  • Utilized a combination of 3 comparison algorithms to quantify differences between videos and give critical feedback

Iris

*Synopsys Science Fair Winner

  • Developed an Arduino device with 3D-printed octagons to rotate and facilitate the learning of braille characters

  • Engineered a voice-controlled iOS application that serves as the device controller to teach and test braille
  • Programmed a flask server to update the Arduino device and send the proper rotational movements from the iOS app
Talky (NWHacks)

*Won Best Microsoft Hack, Top 30 Overall, Most Popular Vote

  • Built an iOS app that coached public speaking using voice analysis 
  • Communicated with the coach through a chat-like interface that recorded speeches and gave constructive feedback 
  • Integrated flask backend to analyze audio for words per minute, volume, pausing and clarity

Guru (PennApps XV)

*Won Top 10 Overall, Best Educational Hack, $1000 Grant from 1517

  • Developed iOS App for students to get their questions rapidly answered through a video call
  • Integrated seamless live video technology through Twilio 
  • Implemented a collaborative whiteboard to draw and explain with