about the throughline
Every project starts with a person — a reader who can't parse the page, a driver who can't see the crossing. I study how people read, drive, and decide, then build the AI that notices.
education
Rutgers University, New Brunswick — BS Computer Science + BA Cognitive Science, minor in Mathematics. Expected May 2028.
GPA 3.73 · dean's list — 4 consecutive semesters (fall '24 – spring '26)
coursework — data structures · linear algebra & optimization · computer architecture · discrete structures · principles of programming languages · multivariable calculus · intro to AI · distributed systems
toolbox
GoPythonTypeScriptC / C++React / Next.jsNode.jsFastAPISpring BootPostgreSQLRedisKafkaDockerTerraformAWSGitHub ActionsPrometheus · GrafanaRAG · LlamaIndexLangChainClaude APIPyTorchYOLO / CNNs
experience three roles, one throughline roles link to what they shipped →
Nov 2026 – Apr 2027
AI Engineering intern incoming
BalanX Bio remote
- Designing, testing, and refining AI personalization models.
- Partnering with the data and engineering teams.
- Deploying AI features into production.
AI personalizationmodel evaluationproduction ML
June 2026 – Aug 2026
Machine Learning extern
Collaborative Solutions, LLC Piscataway, NJ
- Led the team's migration from YOLOv5 to YOLOv11.
- Built the training pipeline across GitHub, Drive, and Colab — 15 experiments.
- Fine-tuned from COCO weights: +33% mAP50 over the prior benchmark.
- Found a bug shrinking training images. Thin-object AP +111%.
YOLOv11transfer learningPyTorchColab
shipped
Visual distractions — +33% mAP50, 0.406 → 0.606
case study →
Jan 2026 – present
Lead Software Engineer
HCI Lab for Health & Sustainability, Rutgers New Brunswick, NJ
- Built and deployed a Next.js air-quality platform on weather and OpenAI APIs.
- Led the 25+ participant study behind it — findings co-authored into a paper submitted to ACM CHI 2027.
- Merged a Python classifier into ActivityWatch — 19k stars, full PR review.
- Sole engineer for 15+ researchers: mapping, comparison, streaming chatbot.
Next.jsTypeScriptPythonOpenAI API
shipped
What's happening around me — 25+ participant research study
repo ↗
projects built on my own time rows open their repo ↗ · case studies open in full →
01
AuctionEngine case study →
Real-time distributed bidding system in Go — exactly-once settlement, transactional outbox, Terraform on AWS
1,126 bids/sec at 3.3 ms p99 — zero lost updates across 1,000 concurrent bidders
2026
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02
AccessAdvisor case study →
AI accessibility reviewer — scans PRs, live URLs, and whole repos for WCAG 2.1 violations, posts inline fixes
90% of real violations caught — measured against all 78 WCAG criteria
2026
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03
FreshCam
Produce spoilage detection — CNN on a Roboflow dataset, Gemini API for nutrition and freshness, color-blind accessible
90% classification accuracy across 20+ produce categories
2026
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04
NeuroDrive
Chrome extension that simplifies on-page text in real time — dyslexia-friendly rendering, speech, and a focus mode
3 ways to process a page — simplify, speak, focus
2025
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off the clock proof I'm a person tap photo editing for the gallery →
⚽soccer
pickup games I take far too seriously
🏋️the gym
same discipline as debugging: show up, add one
🔴pokémon
click me — I dare you
📷photo editing photos →
where I learned that color is a decision
🎧music
headphones on = the code is going well
🥾hiking
best debugging happens away from the laptop