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The AI search engine for developers. Scaled an AI consumer product from pre-launch to millions of searches per week.

New York, New York, US

Kalshi is developing a new asset class, “event contracts,” and a financial exchange for trading on the outcome of events. On track to be federally regulated by the CFTC as the first-ever legal futures exchange in the U.S. for trading on a broad category of events.

Miami, Florida, US

Global Quantitative Strategies Alpha R&D Team - Worked closely with execution quants to build a performant analytics platform.Commodities Team - Created and deployed a statistical model on the international flow of cocoa.

San Francisco, California, US

8th engineer at Sequoia-backed startup building end-to-end encrypted collaboration tools, e.g. ultra-secure GoogleDocs. Investigating best practices in secure authentication, authorization, session management, and cryptography.

Mountain View, CA, US

Developed a translation between the SCSI and NVMe storage protocols, allowing future standardization to reduce maintenance costs by 3x.Worked with a team of four to design a system covering hundreds of pages of technical documentation.

San Jose, CA, US

Implemented a write-through Redis database cache, fixing scalability and data consistency issues while maintaining sub-100ms API response times.Connected API to a centralized reporting system using Datadog metrics and Splunk log forwarders.

Austin, Texas, US

Created test cases in a CI/CD pipeline to provide full automated coverage of 12 core APIs, saving 100+ hours per year on manual testing. Parallelized tests against a local database to reduce test suite running times by 95% (12 min -> 40s).

Denton, TX, US

Trained machine learning models on traffic stop data to predict the outcome of vehicle searches.Improved the accuracy of a SVM classifier by over 30% using the scikit-learn library.

Notre Dame, IN, US

Developed a web-based visual analytics tool for exploring data from academic conferences using d3.js.Published and presented an academic paper at the Visualization and Data Analysis 2018 conference.

Education record

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science, Turing Scholar Honors

Education record