🤓 Psychology → Neuroscience → AI: My Unlikely Path to Building Tech That Feels Human I’ve always been obsessed with why we do what we do. At UCSB, I studied Psychology to understand human behavior. At NYU, I dove into Neuroscience to dissect how brains learn.
Experience
2025 — Now
2025 — Now
New York, United States
Leading a superb team of 5 engineers to make a resilient, comprehensive, and proactive trading/investing platform. Overseeing technical strategy, system stability, and making sure our clients have the best AI working tirelessly to make them money!
â—Ź Designed a Durable Execution framework to handle long-horizon AI workflows (e.g., multi-day earnings analysis). Enabled agents to survive infrastructure failures without state loss, ensuring high reliability for financial operations and research flows.
â—Ź Engineered a predictive KV-cache pre-filling system for multi-agent handoffs. Reduced Time-to-First-Token (TTFT) to 0ms and cut P50 agent latency from 2 minutes to <30 seconds via proactive context warming and tool batching.
â—Ź Architected a hybrid data layer, utilizing ClickHouse for high-frequency financial time-series data and Postgres for news and social data coalescing for most insightful and useful feed.
â—Ź Achieved a 10% MoM cost reduction by building a dynamic model router that optimizes for token economy. Implemented a closed-loop simulation pipeline (paper trading) to continuously benchmark AI trade ideas against real-market performance.
â—Ź Hardened the platform for brokerage integration by leveraging distributed secret management, immutable access audit trails, and strict PII minimization.
â—Ź Established a robust observability stack (Sentry, Distributed Tracing, PagerDuty) and introduced CI/CD pipelines with automated LLM regression testing, ensuring seamless zero-downtime deployments.
2024 — 2025
2024 — 2025
New York, New York, United States
Architected and developed a B2B Generative AI platform from the ground up, focusing on backend engineering, AI integration, and cross-functional collaboration. Key achievements:
â—Ź Built a scalable Python/Django/Postgres backend with Docker, Redis, Celery, and REST APIs, automating lead generation workflows to process 10,000+ emails/day at 98% deliverability. Reduced operational costs by 85% to $0.01 per enriched lead through optimized resource allocation.
â—Ź Developed Generative AI models (LangChain, NLP, LLaMa, HuggingFace) to personalize email content and analyze lead behavior, driving 35% higher response rates and 160% more positive replies.
â—Ź Engineered a fully automated pipeline for lead discovery, enrichment, and outreach, focusing on background tasks for performance tracking and iterative campaign optimization.
â—Ź Achieved 80%+ code coverage via unit/integration testing (jUnit) and CI/CD pipelines, ensuring reliability and scalability for high-traffic workloads.
â—Ź Collaborated on product strategy and client onboarding.
Ideal for teams seeking a backend-focused engineer with expertise in AI-powered systems, high-volume automation, and delivering measurable business impact through technical execution.
2022 — 2024
2022 — 2024
Santa Monica, California, United States
â—Ź Restructured the geofencing system improving performance, removing redundancy, and standardize the user experience across company software.
â—Ź Led the efforts to improve memory performance and stability of the backend systems.
â—Ź Improved Veo-Access and Veo-Plus memberships while adding new functionality.
â—Ź Implemented internal suggestions to improve the experience of Veo workers when interacting with internal tools.
â—Ź Created multiple scripts and cron jobs for various bug fixes, and as testing of new functionalities.
2022 — 2023
2022 — 2023
New York, United States
Co-created an educational platform that offered education on any topic, provided a knowledge base.
Enabled the following functionalities:
â—Ź Given a book or video, created a teacher agent based on OpenAI GPT4
â—Ź This teacher can teach you any concept from the material, ranging from specific questions to complex multilesson plans based on a generic inquiry.
â—Ź This teacher can create homework questions in multiple choice and long format.
â—Ź This teacher can edit and review your work, grade it, understand where mistakes came from and offer directions for improvement.
2021 — 2022
2021 — 2022
New York, New York, United States
â—Ź Analyzed popular datasets with Pandas in search of common points of automation of raw data processing
â—Ź Created a data preprocessing agent using SciKit that learned from users becoming more autonomous
â—Ź Aided with visualization agent that automatically provided different graphs depending on the dataset
â—Ź Integrated both agents into the back end of ShopTaki demo website using Flask and set it up with AWS
Education
New York University
Bachelor's degree
2020 — 2022
Columbia Engineering
BootCamp
2021 — 2022
Neuromatch Academy
Computational Neuroscience
2021 — 2021
UC Santa Barbara
Psychology
2018 — 2020
The Newman School
High School Diploma
2014 — 2018