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Work Experience
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Product Manager & Algorithms Engineer, Heritage (Jan 2026 -)
Leading a team of 4 designers and engineers to build Heritage, an iOS platform that helps aspirational people achieve their goals by putting them in the right rooms with the right people.
Designing event and connection recommendation algorithms, iterating through user testing and behavioral feedback.
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AI Engineering Consultant, Spinach Media Group (Feb 2026 -)
Exploring the intersection of AI, digital culture, and creative industries through a structured residency covering visual literacy, media analysis, and artist brand strategy.
Conducting case studies on emerging artists and active media campaigns, analyzing audience growth, content performance, and brand positioning across digital platforms.
Advising on integrating LLM-driven workflows for analyzing media performance and audience behavior.
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Freelance Website Developer (Feb 2025 -)
Built and launched responsive websites for artists and creative professionals, translating each client's brand identity into distinctive digital experiences.
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Research Software Engineer, NeuGenes UCSF Lab (Oct 2025 - Feb 2026)
Developed an interactive platform to visualize neural and genetic data from deep-learning alignment models, integrating model pipelines with a React, Tailwind, and Express.js interface. Built API design patterns and data workflows to support scientific analysis and large-scale dataset uploads.
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AI/ML Intern, Enlaye (Jun - Aug 2025)
Built and deployed end-to-end AI workflows that transformed field audio and images into structured issue reports enabling 80% faster reporting across 1,000+ events. Developed preprocessing pipelines that improved LLM accuracy by 20% and reduced latency by 35%. Collaborated with PMs to align outputs with real-world product needs.
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Software Engineering Intern, Regenerating Inc. (Jun - Aug 2024)
Developed an AI photo-editing iOS app with a SwiftUI frontend and a Python facial-recognition backend using cv2, NumPy, and dlib. Prototyped layouts in Figma and performed competitor and pricing analysis to refine product design.
Projects
Cofounded an art and technology collective exploring cross-disciplinary collaboration between artists, engineers, and researchers.
Organizing a cohort-based model of creative “cycles,” working with 8 founding members and curating contributions from 20+ artists for Cycle 0, launching May 2026.
This project combines my dad's scuba diving photos with my water related paintings to imagine a world where humans, nature, and technology can coexist.
Co-developing Sonya, a software-driven smart speaker listening experience that expands Spotify's Daylist by integrating listener history, environmental context, and real-time verbal prompts to deliver dynamic, atmosphere-aware playlists. Selected as one of 13 groups to pitch the concept to Sony with the potential for funding and continued project development.
Selected as 1 of 40 mentees for the She Is The Music 's Connect TogetHER mentorship program as a music tech mentee under Anna Skelsey. Designed and built a metadata network integrating API endpoints to map collaboration patterns across the music industry. Developed an analytics and insights dashboard with an interactive visual network to explore artist, genre, and label relationships, supporting A&R discovery and helping teams identify suitable collaborators for upcoming projects.
Developed a plagiarism detection system comparing n-gram features and similarity scores; presented findings in a departmental research showcase. Implemented multiprocessing to cut training time by 82% and achieved a 72.8% F-score across 1,400 academic papers.
Analyzed Spotify's machine-learning-driven personalization, playlist curation, and user engagement systems such as Wrapped. Explored platform strategy, AI ethics, and licensing structures shaping the future of music streaming.
Proposed that Kering invest in branded digital fashion toolkits for UGC platforms like Roblox and Fortnite, offering customizable avatar assets, textures, and templates to engage players, expand brand presence in virtual economies, and generate new revenue through creator royalties.
Education
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B.A. in Computer Science and Mathematics, NYU
(Sep 2022- Dec 2025)
Coursework: Algorithms, Applied Internet Technology, Natural Language Processing, Numerical Computing, Operating Systems, Mathematical Statistics, Numerical Analysis, Data Structures, Theory of Probability, Abstract Algebra, Real Analysis, Topology.
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Minor in Business of Entertainment, Media, and Technology
Coursework: Data Analysis in the Music Industry, Business Structure of the Music Industry, Strategic Music and Branding, Business of Film, Globalization of the Entertainment Industry, Business of Video Games, Entertainment and Media Industries.