Fall 2026
Software Developer Engineer Intern
IBM
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Based in San Diego, CA
Experience
Enterprises and organizations I have worked on:
Summer 2026
Software Engineer Intern
American Express
Worked on the Travel Org ✈️
- Built an enterprise SDLC agentic orchestration dev tool to be adopted across the org.
2025
Backend Software Engineer Intern
HopeJam
Built backend services for collaborative, real-time music experiences.
- Designed REST endpoints and supporting backend workflows.
- Contributed to a real-time platform for hosts and participants.
2024 - Present
Director of Software Development
Data Science UCSB
Santa Barbara, CA
Lead web development and technical initiatives for a 600+ member student organization.
- Own website development and operational tooling.
- Support member-facing systems for annual recruitment and events.
Selected work
Projects I have found to be useful
Fitness Mini
Software Engineer
Built an interactive fitness and health web app during Shopify's 48-hour Shop Mini Hackathon. Deployed for 5M+ Users.
HopeJam
Backend Software Engineer Intern
Built real-time backend features for a synchronous music-sheet platform with live notation control.
Vector DB
Systems Engineering
Building a GPU-accelerated vector database with a Rust API layer and native interoperability.
Dengine v1
Distributed Systems Engineering
A distributed DAG-based LLM engine for submitting and visualizing task graphs with dependency-aware scheduling, distributed workers, and fault tolerance.
Context Lens
Software Engineer
Using Gemini Vision models, built a modular app with a goal to help provide conversational cues.
Research Chat Platform
Machine Learning Research
Developed a research-oriented live chat application with emotion recognition and real-time communication.
