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New York, NY, US

– Enhanced a home-grown CMS for AI chatbots by enabling LLM prompt customization, web data extraction, and document parsing via both OpenAI APIs and Azure Document Intelligence to streamline deployment of bots with configurable expertise– Delivered an AI analytics feature, organizing key metrics while developing both telemetry services and visualization.

New York City Metropolitan Area

– Designed product specifications, organized development sprints, and implemented RESTful API using C++ and Go compiled into WebAssembly binaries, boosting performance by 40–60% over equivalent JavaScript implementations– Coded and launched product information site, dynamically displaying up-to-date documentation and product best-practices in centralized.

New York City Metropolitan Area

– Leveraging Node/Express, refactored API: added password encryption middleware, updated endpoints related to user login, signup, and authentication using JWTs, and improved response time for data creation and feed retrieval endpoints by 75%– With PostgreSQL, updated user data model, revamping data with a focus one-to-many and many-to-many relationships in.

– Implementing Redux, incorporated centralized store into existing frontend codebase and authored concise state-reducer models that increased developer velocity when instantiating collections of client-side components based on user data retrieved via the API– Employing OAuth, built support for persistent sessions, allowing users to leverage existing.

– Using OSC and C#, authored SDK for connecting library resources to the Unity Game Engine, empowering the development of interfaces that dynamically visualize and offer control over generative processes supported by the library– Implemented core library based on principles of generational mutation, streamlining the configuration of real-time simulations.

– Published an IoC container framework for the SuperCollider language, enhancing the applicability of pre-compiled classes for audio and digital signal processing applications by adding support for runtime dependency injection, simplifying complex class inheritance issues– Developed library of framework extensions, including support for well-known software.

– Guided early stage product market research decisions by iteratively developing procedural audio prototypes using C#, the SuperCollider language, and Unity for a mobile AR meditation application based on therapeutic research in embodied cognition– Supporting a team of academic researchers and 3D graphic artists, organized product roadmap and conducted.

– Directed curricular product strategy for company’s first subscription service; working cross-functionally with media production and operations teams, surpassed quarterly launch expectations by 15 offerings, delivering over 20 and acquiring 20k subscribers– Managed the full development lifecycle of online classes with 7-figure budgets, aligning with.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba

Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa

Master Of Music - Mm, Music Technology

Master’s thesis: “Generative Bugs: Toward a practice-based meta-theory of computer music”

Master'S Coursework In Computer Science

Relevant coursework: discrete math, software engineering, computer networking, operating systems

Certificate, Computer Science

Awarded with distinction. Topics covered: C++, object-oriented design, discrete math, data structures and algorithms, principles of.

High School Diploma