My Journey
Most of my life: Competitive debater and Model UNer. Dreaming of working for the UN.
May 2022: Wrote and presented a TED-Ed keynote on the fragility of Canadian democracy through the lens of Star Wars.
September 2023: Began college at Tufts University with an international relations focus.
January 2024: Stumbled through my first ever CS class. Realized that coding is basically trying to debate a compiler, except instead of using English, you're using C.
January 2025: After many of unsuccessful cold calls, someone finally called back. Landed my first software engineering internship at Cerebro Sports.
March 2025: Won my first ever hackathon with Text-To-Braille due to its innovation in accessibility, laying the groundwork for a more accessible braille printer.
August 2025: Recruited to basketball AI startup AirPLAi Sports as one of their first engineers, working on a variety fo full-stack engineering projects.
September 2025: Chosen as Founding Engineer at ed-tech startup Ludus Language. Architected the entire backend and launched on web and the App Store.
January 2026: Began my semester abroad at DIS Copenhagen, focusing on AI Ethics, Neural Networks, and Arctic Geopolitics.
June 2026: Started my full-time internship at AirPLAi Sports in Seattle. Rearchitected the schema, data pipeline, and frontend from a one-sport setup to a modular multi-sport system. I also own the hiring pipeline and various operational workflows.
September 2026: Starting as Tech Lead for JumboCode, a Tufts club which does pro-bono software work for companies around Boston. Project and team TBD.
Debate and software engineering follow the same process: define the problem and constraints, evaluate approaches, select the best solution, then execute flawlessly under pressure. The difference is the audience - a judge versus a compiler.
While international relations is no longer my primary focus, my humanities background shapes how I build. I combine user-first thinking (why and for who is this a problem?) with systems-first thinking (what's the right architecture to solve it?). Turns out years of arguing about the world is pretty good training for figuring out how I can use my expertise to improve it.
Where I've Built
AirPLAi Sports (Aug 2025 - Present)
• Owned development of full-stack multi-tenant dashboard which now generates $75,000 in annual per-client revenue
• Rebuilt Text-to-SQL tool using few-shot learning, increasing data query response accuracy 200% and speed 300%
• Built first-of-their-kind basketball shot charts which link directly to the video of the play
• Architected agentic data retrieval system for flagship AI product using LangGraph with data, web, and video tools
• Hired and led 3 software engineering interns delivering features across Next.js sites, TypeScript APIs, and AI workflows
Ludus Language (Sept 2025 - Nov 2025)
• Joined as founding engineer and only technical member of the team
• Built wikiglot to fix translation, decreasing costs by 100% and increasing accuracy by 30%
Cerebro Sports (Feb 2025 - Aug 2025)
• Custom-built Hubspot to monday.com automation
• Implemented a box score ETL pipeline which increased ingestion efficiency by 97%
• Managed database redesign and backfill
Research & Leadership
Engineering Diplomacy
• Partnered with Tufts professor Shafiqul Islam to develop a new problem-solving framework combining scientific rigor and social context
• Granted Harvard Radcliffe Fellowship to work on developing an Engineering Diplomacy book
