Top finisher out of 55+ participants at Hacking4Humanity — a full-stack artist platform that fights AI art theft with an ensemble bot-detection service (MLP, logistic regression, DOM honeypot telemetry) and S3/Redis-backed feed infrastructure cutting feed load 50× and average document size 1,700×.
A real-time motion controller translating 10+ body poses into Minecraft inputs at 15 ms/frame (66 FPS), with a cross-platform mobile controller over WebSockets/UDP and a configurable, debounced gesture state machine.
A fully playable digital version of the Azul board game, built from scratch in Java, with a complete game engine covering tile drafting, factory displays, pattern lines, and scoring logic, with Lottie animations for polish.
A full-stack app teaching kids Java through visual block coding, with custom character animations and site layout designed in Adobe Illustrator and After Effects.
Architected an async TypeScript multi-panel rendering pipeline with Gemini using database heartbeats and PostgreSQL triggers to survive 150s timeouts across 4 concurrent panel renders, cutting render time 3hrs → 2mins.
Fine-tuned Stable Diffusion with ControlNet on paired architectural imagery, using edge/line conditioning to preserve floor-plan geometry and structural features, reducing render failures 31% → 5%.
Deployed workflows with enterprise homebuilders (Lennar, Century Communities), shipping renders into 100+ reports.
15-122 Teaching Assistant · CMU SCS
August 2026 – Present
CC0Data StructuresAlgorithms
TA for 500+ students, covering data structures, algorithms, and correctness proofs with contracts and loop invariants in C.
Led weekly recitations for 20+ students and held office hours teaching asymptotic-complexity analysis.
Privacy and Security Research Assistant · CMU SCS
May 2026 – August 2026
PostgreSQLPythonpandas
Presented research on production privacy systems at IEEE Symposium on Privacy Expectations (ISoPE) 2026.
Designed and implemented a PostgreSQL database for an open-source taxonomy of 200+ privacy systems modeling relationships among system architectures, privacy mechanisms, and deployment characteristics.
Engineered a pandas ETL pipeline to scrape and normalize 100+ heterogeneous datasets from industry sources.
Software Engineer Intern · Thursday Thrift
May 2025 – August 2025
FastAPINestJSpgvectorRedis
Designed and shipped a personalized clothing recommendation engine combining embedding generation with vector retrieval, achieving 99% embedding coverage and 2.4ms personalized scoring via in-process pgvector.
Optimized seller-facing APIs via Redis caching, cutting p99 latency 80%, boosting throughput 2.3x (2.8s to 560ms).
Migrated 20+ endpoints in the seller domain from FastAPI monolith into modular NestJS/TypeScript REST service.
Resident Assistant · CMU Housing
May 2026 – August 2026
Leadership
Mediated resident conflicts and mental health crises with a 16-person RA staff serving 700+ students.
Executed emergency preparedness plans, coordinating with emergency services during high-stress situations.
Managed duty schedules and resident tracking using spreadsheets.
