Career
AI/ML systems and full-stack engineering. Computer Engineering + TIM, UC Santa Cruz, class of 2028.
Computer Engineering + TIM student at UC Santa Cruz (graduating June 2028), specializing in AI/ML systems and full-stack development. Currently an AI Research Intern at Kwaai co-authoring a paper on self-refining RAG, doing LLM systems research at the AIEA Lab, and serving as Director of Projects at 180 Degrees Consulting. I build things that reach people at scale.
Education
University of California, Santa Cruz
Class of 2028
B.S.
Computer Engineering
B.S.
Technology Information Management
Relevant coursework
Campus involvement
180 Degrees Consulting
Director of Projects
AIEA Lab
LLM Systems Researcher
Tech Community
Active Member
Career Timeline
May 2026 - Present
AI Research Intern
Kwaai
Researching self-refining retrieval-augmented generation and benchmarking centralized vs. decentralized retrieval architectures.
- Co-authoring a research paper on a self-refining RAG architecture that compresses vector-indexed knowledge into a dynamic graph
- Using unsupervised entity/relation scoring to reduce storage overhead while preserving retrieval recall
- Ran 15+ RAG benchmarking experiments, improving answer groundedness by 18% while cutting average query latency by 25%
April 2026 - July 2026
Senior Growth Intern
Ditto.ai
Led campus growth strategy and execution for Ditto, a $10M venture-backed dating app.
- Acquired 700+ verified sign-ups within a single quarter
- Generated 30,000+ social media interactions across Instagram and TikTok
September 2025 - Present
LLM Systems Researcher
AIEA Lab
Designed and deployed legal-domain retrieval-augmented generation systems with measurable quality gains.
- Built a RAG pipeline over 100+ domain-specific legal corpora, boosting QA relevance by 30% on benchmark evaluations
- Engineered automated ingestion with sliding-window chunking, token-aware splitting, and batch embedding
- Indexed 100+ legal corpora in under 10 minutes, cutting manual preprocessing time by 40%
July 2026 - Present
Director of Projects
180 Degrees Consulting
Senior technical and strategic backstop across the chapter's client engagements.
- Oversee 8+ concurrent engagements
- Resolve roadblocks that project managers and leads can't clear independently
January 2026 - July 2026
Project Manager
180 Degrees Consulting
Led consulting delivery for nonprofit clients using data-backed strategy.
- Led a 7-person consultant team across 5 nonprofit engagements
- Delivered pricing and customer-acquisition recommendations that clients projected would lift revenue 12–15%
August 2024 - January 2026
Junior → Senior Consultant
180 Degrees Consulting
Scoped and executed quantitative analysis workstreams for client-facing strategy engagements.
- Built financial models from raw client datasets that directly informed 3 board-level pricing decisions
- Promoted from junior to senior consultant based on delivery impact
August 2023 - September 2025
Lead Tutor
Code Ninjas
Led instruction and student progress management across Python, JavaScript, and algorithmic thinking curricula.
- Managed end-to-end academic progress for 30+ students
- Drove a 25% average score improvement within 3 months through personalized learning plans
- Created parent-facing performance reports to improve retention and engagement
Technical Skills
Languages
ML / LLM
Tools & Frameworks
GitHub Activity
Building in public, one commit at a time
View profileFeatured Projects
LiftDiary — ML Workout Tracker
LiveFull-stack workout tracker generating ML-driven progressive-overload recommendations, used by 10+ beta testers to log 100+ training sessions. A normalized SQL schema tracks users, splits, sessions, and set-level performance, enabling historical trend analysis and model retraining on individual lift velocity curves.
GearUp — Top 5 @ ShopHacks
LiveGPT-powered fitness shopping assistant built with Shopify's Shop Mini SDK. Guiding questions generate NLP search queries that match products to a user's fitness goals through dynamic filtering and recommendation logic. Deployed with Shopify engineers on the Shop app (100M+ user platform).
180 Degrees Consulting @ UCSC — Website & Member Portal
LivePublic site and internal member portal for UCSC's 180 Degrees Consulting chapter. The portal handles attendance, a member directory, calendar, per-member task tracking with stage timelines, project team plans, and admin tools, backed by Supabase with row-level security.
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