My Work Experience

Early Engineer · New York, NY

• Built the platform's RBAC and its Postgres ltree folder and file system, powering scoped sharing across millions of documents.
• Built the framework, prompting, tools and security boundaries behind high-side agentic investigative search and chat, plus its eval harness.
• Scaled ingestion to millions of documents a week and multi-terabyte datasets with resumable presigned multipart uploads and hardened parsing and chunking pipelines.

CTO & Co-Founder · Ithaca, NY

• Built a goal-planning and habit-tracking app in Flutter and Dart with AI-generated content.
• Telora finalist and top 10% of Y Combinator applicants; download the app at useascendant.com.

Product Software Developer · Dec 2022 - Aug 2023 · Ithaca, NY

• Built a Python simulation of the net radiative cooling power of polymers with multi-layer metal and adhesive coatings, from their absorption spectra and environmental factors in the 8–13 micron band.
• Used it to screen hundreds of polymer combinations for daytime radiative sky cooling, saving over $150,000 in physical testing.

Full-stack Intern · Jun 2022 - Oct 2022 · Remote

• Built Python calculators for the performance and ROI of energy solutions, with JavaScript visualizations for client demos that boosted pilot deal conversions by 250%.
• Rebuilt the company website in JavaScript with new pages, interactive features, animations and a new logo.

Website Developer · El Cajon, CA

• Rebuilt and rebranded two outdated websites with better navigation, dynamic media, social plugins and more readable content.
• Grew user sessions by 358%, page load speed by 230%, search traffic by 310% and sales by 202%.

Technical Resilience Mentee · Remote

• Developed strategies to navigate challenges in personal and academic workspaces.