Software engineer joining Circle's payments team in late May. Currently researching multimodal AI at the NSF iSAT institute and studying CS at CU Boulder.
Experience
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Undergraduate Research Intern
NSF AI Institute for Student-AI Teaming (iSAT)
- Building classroom AI partners in Python and TypeScript — response pipelines wired up with RAG and multimodal embeddings.
- Wrangling the multimodal stack: speech, gaze, text, and video flowing through annotation, evaluation, and live learning experiments.
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Software Engineering Intern
Akvelon
- Hardened four Microsoft Power BI visuals in TypeScript — modernized data handling, security fixes shipped upstream (heatmap PR #119).
- Designed IoT sensors that pushed a million+ environmental readings into Azure SQL for Bellevue's air-quality program.
Education
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B.S. Computer Science
University of Colorado Boulder
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A.S. Computer Science (DTA/MRP)
Lake Washington Institute of Technology
Selected Projects
- 001 BuffAI Acting team lead and ML developer — AI-powered course planner for CU Boulder built on Ollama, with a Node.js / SQL stack tracking degree progress in real time.
- 002 Circle × Solana Payments MBC 2025 finalist — top 5 of 200+ submissions. Non-custodial USDC-to-fiat: a Chrome extension mints a just-in-time virtual Mastercard from an on-chain transfer at checkout.
- 003 KalshiNFL Tooling for tracking NFL game odds via Kalshi's prediction markets API.
Stack
- > languages
- Python · TypeScript · JavaScript · C · SQL · Bash
- > runtimes
- Node.js · Chrome Extensions (MV3) · Linux (RHEL/Ubuntu)
- > systems
- Docker · Git · Solana (SPL Tokens, RPC)
- > ml
- RAG · Multimodal pipelines · Backend APIs
Approach
- Reliability before novelty.
- Clarity before cleverness.
- Ship — and own what you ship.
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