Software engineer currently interning at AWS on the database infrastructure team. Previously at Circle, and studying CS at CU Boulder.

Experience

  1. Software Engineering Intern

    Circle

    Remote May 2026 — Present
    • Built and shipped @circle-fin/cpn, a typed TypeScript SDK for cross-border settlement on the Circle Payments Network, turning integration errors into compile-time guarantees.
    • Designed structured error handling with exponential-backoff retries against CPN's REST APIs, making cross-border settlement flows fault-tolerant and resilient by default.
    • Abstracted travel-rule compliance, Permit2 approvals, and JWE encryption behind typed helpers; authored an MCP server surfacing integration constraints and Solana signing requirements at development time.

  2. Undergraduate Research Intern

    NSF AI Institute for Student-AI Teaming (iSAT)

    Boulder, CO 2025 — 2026
    • Building classroom AI partners in Python and TypeScript — response pipelines wired up with RAG and multimodal embeddings.
    • Wrangling the multimodal stack: speech, gaze, text, and video flowing through annotation, evaluation, and live learning experiments.

  3. Software Engineering Intern

    Akvelon

    Bellevue, WA Jun — Aug 2023
    • Hardened four Microsoft Power BI visuals in TypeScript — modernized data handling, security fixes shipped upstream (heatmap PR #119).
    • Designed IoT sensors that pushed a million+ environmental readings into Azure SQL for Bellevue's air-quality program.
Education

  1. B.S. Computer Science

    University of Colorado Boulder

    Boulder, CO Expected May 2027 · GPA 3.8

  2. A.S. Computer Science (DTA/MRP)

    Lake Washington Institute of Technology

    Kirkland, WA July 2024 · GPA 4.0
Building Now
  1. 001 Endurance Native SwiftUI iPhone app that maps a 36-week full-distance triathlon plan onto real calendar dates — fully offline, on-device, with a Foundation-only core under 60+ tests.
  2. 002 modeltraining AI-driven trading bot on Alpaca — an LLM proposes buy / sell / hold per symbol, then a deterministic risk layer sizes and gates every order. Trades live with real money — not paper trading or a dry-run.
Featured Work
  1. 001 BuffAI Acting team lead and ML developer — AI-powered course planner for CU Boulder built on Ollama, with a Node.js / SQL stack tracking degree progress in real time.
  2. 002 Circle × Solana Payments MBC 2025 finalist — top 5 of 200+ submissions. Non-custodial USDC-to-fiat: a Chrome extension mints a just-in-time virtual Mastercard from an on-chain transfer at checkout.
Stack
> languages
Python · TypeScript · JavaScript · C · SQL · Bash
> runtimes
Node.js · Chrome Extensions (MV3) · Linux (RHEL/Ubuntu)
> systems
Docker · Git · Solana (SPL Tokens, RPC)
> ml
RAG · Multimodal pipelines · Backend APIs
Approach
Colophon

Built with vanilla JavaScript and HTML5 canvas.

No frameworks. No analytics. No tracking.

Last revision: May 2026.