I grew up in a small town in North East Texas called Daingerfield with a population of around 2000 people, and am currently a senior at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology studying Mathematics and Computer Science. I discovered my passion for mathematics and computer science when I was around sixteen.
Experience
2025 — 2025
Seattle, Washington, United States
• Built CostCompass AI, a generative AI platform for infrastructure cost optimization that analyzed AWS usage and pricing data to deliver real-time anomaly detection, forecasting, and optimizations across AWS accounts and services
• Pioneered MCP + agent integration patterns, solving a fundamental deployment challenge adopted across Amazon AI initiatives; became the point of contact for MCP deployments across teams.
• Released the tool Amazon-wide, collaborating with an L8 principal engineer and presenting research org-wide; positioned to scale into a full service for executives, engineers, and financial analysts.
• Enabled success of LoadLens, an AI-powered load test report generator presented to CEO Andy Jassy, by applying the MCP + agent design pattern to unblock development and ensure production functionality.
• Overcame AWS Lambda runtime constraints (cold starts, dependency packaging, subprocess limits) by embedding MCP servers directly within Lambda and bridging them with environment variables, establishing a new serverless deployment pattern.
• Engineered enterprise-ready infra: auto-scaling ECS Fargate clusters, authentication via CloudFront + Lambda@Edge, multi-account IAM role assumption, and observability with CloudWatch.
2024 — 2024
2024 — 2024
Remote
• Developed a retrieval-augmented chatbot surfacing warehouse-specific information, improving customer engagement and lead conversion for Warehouse Exchange.
• Integrated with HubSpot CRM to optimize contact capture and retention workflows.
• Built FastAPI + Firebase backend for real-time chatbot handling, reducing latency and improving reliability.
• Implemented an analytics dashboard to track chat frequency, query types, and engagement peaks, giving sales teams actionable insights.
• Shipped a React/Next.js chatbot UI optimized for mobile/desktop and a mock chatbot tool for internal behavior testing.
2024 — 2024
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
• Engineered NLP + graph ML pipelines to build a physician–scientist knowledge graph from
OpenAlex/Dimensions.ai, stored in CockroachDB.
• Implemented an unsupervised author disambiguation system inspired by IEEE Big Data 2019 (HGCN embedding): constructed heterogeneous networks with CoAuthor/CoTitle/CoVenue relations, meta-path random walks, and graph-enhanced clustering.
• Built custom PyTorch Geometric (GCNConv) models over multi-relation graphs; trained with a skip-gram contrastive objective using alias sampling for positives/negatives.
• Integrated text embeddings (Word2Vec/Doc2Vec, NLTK preprocessing) with structural features, improving representation quality.
• Validated disambiguation with HAC, Louvain, KMeans clustering and PCA/t-SNE visualization; delivered an incremental update pipeline for streaming publications.
2023 — 2023
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
● Worked closely with senior members of DGV’s trading & research team to enhance existing trading strategies and improve investment outcomes for the firm’s investor base with assets in excess of $1.6 billion
● Engineered portfolio construction software in MATLAB, designed for extensibility and ease of modification, allowing users to input a set of security tickers and automatically generate optimized portfolios utilizing statistical optimization techniques
● Applied LSTM deep learning networks to forecast risk-adjusted returns to construct portfolios that often outperformed more traditional Markowitz based portfolio selection criteria
● Designed and back-tested multiple investment strategies based on the construction of optimal portfolios over a 15-year period; notably some strategies outperformed the S&P 500 Total Return Index in metrics such as Sharpe ratio and annualized risk vs returns
● Developed software using Python and Pandas to process historical options data from the Chicago Board of Options Exchange, reducing the dataset from 2.7 billion to 1 million relevant data points for further analysis while also optimizing for speed and accuracy
● Presented software architecture, research findings, and portfolio strategies to trading, research, and management departments, facilitating data-driven decision-making
2022 — 2022
2022 — 2022
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
● Developed smart contracts using technologies such as Solidity, OpenZepplin, Hardhat, and Curve.fi interface on the Ethereum blockchain
● Ensured correct smart contract behavior by writing test suites with Ethers.js and Mocha.js libraries
● Optimized the exchange rates of liquidity pools through mathematical analysis and simulation testing
● Developed simulation suites to simulate exchanges on Curve.fi decentralized exchange
Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology