I build production systems end to end, with agentic AI at the core of how I design, ship, and review. At Fermat, that shows up as AI-enabled agentic commerce running live for brands like Backcountry and GNC.
My outlook on my career, and life in general, started with a simple jigsaw puzzle.
When I was young, finishing a puzzle meant my uncle would buy me a new one. The Mona Lisa. Sydney Opera House. Golden Gate Bridge. These weren't just puzzles, they were my first glimpses of the world's masterpieces, earned piece by piece. What began as a casual hobby evolved into something more: I started timing myself. 50-piece puzzles became 100, then 500, 1000, 3000. When 2D puzzles lost their edge, I moved to 3D. When standard Sudokus became routine, I sought out expert-crafted variants with new and intricate constraints.
The pattern was clear: I wasn't solving puzzles to finish them. I was solving them because I couldn't help myself.
This drive led me to computer science, not because I dreamed of becoming the next Steve Jobs, but because I picked up the subject in Grade 11 out of pure curiosity and discovered something revelatory. Beneath all the syntax, frameworks, and technologies, there was one constant: problem-solving. In that moment, I realized that singular thread had defined every choice I'd made before, every choice I'd make after, and every choice I still make today.
I don't solve problems because an assignment requires it or because it's expected at work. I solve them as a way of living. I've built automated apps to handle monthly phone bill splits with friends on my family plan. I've built dashboards to track my weekly poker game analytics. I wake up excited to tackle the NYT Games and LinkedIn puzzles each morning. I even built my own Wordle clone that pulls random five-letter words from a dictionary, not because anyone asked, but because the idea wouldn't leave me alone.
AI-enabled agentic commerce platform powering funnels, storefronts, and product pages for Backcountry, Scotts Miracle-Gro, New Era, and GNC.
Legal tech platform managing 70+ PB of customer data on Azure. I worked on the storage and data platform team driving cloud cost reduction.
Evolution-inspired algorithms for eco-evolutionary theory research.
Fintech platform serving independent financial advisors.
Global HVAC manufacturer making $1M+ annual procurement decisions.
RAG chatbot for course-specific Q&A.
Benchmarked FAISS vs Qdrant across Zephyr, Mistral, LLaMA-2, and Gemma embeddings to deliver high-accuracy, context-aware answers on academic content.
HCI-driven GenAI career support.
Context-aware resume critique, skill-gap analysis, and prompt-engineered LLM feedback loops, built as a user-centered interactive assistant.
Open-source algorithms for digital ecology.
Two Python and C++ libraries from ECODE Lab, including a high-performance priority queue on PyPI used by evolutionary researchers for simulation work.
Cloud-native database application.
Advanced SQL, indexing, triggers, and constraints layered over CloudSQL on GCP. A deep study in production DBMS design patterns.
Browser extension for STEM ASL translation.
Word2vec + BERT NLP models powering a Chrome extension that translates web text into American Sign Language, focused on STEM terminology accessibility.
Multilingual sentiment and classification NLP.
Production-deployed translation tool processing 10,000+ multilingual comments, plus sentiment models and multi-label classifiers built in R and Python.
The engineers, mentors, and managers who poured into me early are the reason I move the way I do today. I have been lucky to learn from people who treated their own experience as something to hand forward, not hold onto.
That belief runs through everything outside of the code for me. I led residential communities of more than 1,200 students as an RA at MSU, and coached over 1,000 peers on their careers and job searches. Mentorship is not a side project. It is how I try to pay forward the guidance I have been given.
In every room I step into, I look for people to learn from and people I can lift up. The quotes above stuck with me years ago, and they still set the bar.
01 I DJ whenever I get the chance. House, hip-hop, Bollywood. There is a version of the flow state you only find when you are reading a room in real time.
02 Long stretches of open road on my motorcycle are how I reset. Illinois, Michigan, California, anywhere the route looks interesting on a map.
03 I play, watch, and follow sports obsessively. Football, cricket, F1, basketball. The competitive rhythm of teams and seasons is its own kind of storytelling.
If something I have built, written, or ridden past catches your eye, I would love to hear from you.
A project you want a second set of hands on, a DJ set at your next event, an early morning ride through the Bay, or just a hello from someone passing through. Whatever the reason, the door is open.
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