Instinct
Founding engineer
Building Instinct, a personal AI assistant that understands your context and takes action across your apps and devices. Available by text and phone.
Experience
Sierra
Software engineer
Helped ship enterprise AI agents, including several serving hundreds of thousands of conversations per week. Worked on runtime infrastructure, tracing, simulation, and developer tools, with one SDK optimization projected to save $500k+ per year.
Fundusol
Co-founder
Co-founded Fundusol, which designed 850 MW of solar in 2024 and was acquired by Okovate. Led development of agrivoltaic simulation software, including GPU ray tracing and optimization for solar on farmland.
More experiences4Citadel Securities, AWS, Gallus Insights, and Codellege
Citadel Securities
Software engineering intern
Optimized a low-latency trading application, reducing latency by 75% and unlocking thousands of dollars in daily trading opportunity.
Amazon Web Services
Software engineering intern
Built a patching and vulnerability-detection tool that scanned 10,000 EC2 servers a day, saving the ELB team over 10 hours a week.
Gallus Insights
Software engineering intern
Led development of a mortgage analytics platform and created a predictive model. The tool attracted hundreds of customers and helped win a multibillion-dollar lender as a client.
Codellege by Softtek
Coding instructor
Designed and taught a three-month Arduino course for dozens of underserved students through the START program.
Projects
Avalon Learn
Built a grading and feedback platform used in CMU and Pitt courses in spring 2025, with 20+ further course commitments that year.
TAI
Built a YouTube question-answering app and Chrome extension. Later partnered with a Sri Lankan education platform to reach more learners.
More projects4Needle Weld, Automating Codenames Spymasters, Panda Bot, Point & Prove
Needle Weld
Built a GPU kernel fusion library for Needle that detects operator trees and compiles them into combined CUDA kernels at runtime.
Automating Codenames Spymasters
Built an ensemble model for Codenames clue generation, with a 27% improvement over the prior state of the art using multiple word definitions and weighted model selection.
Panda Bot
Built a multi-agent question-answering system with Professor Ada for CMU’s 15-251 course. It helped instructors answer thousands of student questions.
Point & Prove
Built a constructive logic teaching app and was invited by Professor Marijn Heule to present it to CMU’s Logic and Mechanized Reasoning course.