Focus
Building at the intersection of machine intelligence and human necessity.
Interested in LLM infrastructure, agentic workflows and building products that drive positive impact.
On the side, I'm a professional DJ, golfer, and ethnography nerd.
Now
Carnegie Mellon University: ECE, Minor in Machine Learning.
Distributed systems, machine learning and analog circuit design this semester.
Previous Work
Kairos (YC X25): Founding Engineer.May - Aug 2026
Led build and BYOC deployment of enterprise agent used by 50+ people. Built Telos, a distillation pipeline that turns agent traces into procedural memory, improving GPT-5.5 by 24% on τ³-Banking with no fine-tuning.
Vinyl: Co-Founder.Dec 2025 - Mar 2026
On-demand audio platform that generates short podcasts for anything you’re curious about. Launched on the App Store, 600+ users and 1000+ podcast downloads, supported by CMU’s Foundry Accelerator.
NutriSync: Co-Founder.Aug 2025 - Dec 2025
Real-time speech-to-speech AI (LiveKit, Deepgram, Cartesia) that turns patient meal descriptions into structured clinical nutrition data. Ran a contracted pilot with 6 dietitians and 30 patients at Case Specific Nutrition; supported by CMU’s Swartz Center, Microsoft for Startups and Project Olympus. GitHub.
LLMs for Education (Google DeepMind Collaboration): Lead Researcher.Sep 2023 - Apr 2024
Fine-tuned Mixtral and Qwen models to automate grading pipelines for STEM topics. Mentored by a DeepMind MLE and the UPenn Director of Center for Learning Analytics. Colab.
Projects
Vantagegeospatial intelligence for roofers, 4th/50 @ felicishacks · 2026
Built a geospatial intelligence platform for roofing contractors; queried building footprint data via Overpass API and deployed a computer vision pipeline using Moondream to detect and classify roof damage from satellite imagery. Placed 4th of 50 teams at CMU's largest venture hackathon.
Bartrtrading exchange for SMBs · 2026
Built a platform that connects small businesses to investors and acquirers; ranks and scores companies for acquirability, suggests prices from trading mathematics and hosts arbitrage-free bidding rounds, with Grok agents reviewing transactions. HackCMU 2026.
SpeakSmart.aiIELTS speaking tutor · 2025
Designed conversational AI logic for an IELTS speaking tutor by converting scoring criteria into measurable eval rules and multi-turn dialogue flows. Co-Founder and Lead Engineer; one of 12 finalists in the Graduate Track of CMU's McGinnis Venture Competition, the only undergraduate in the track, as a freshman.
PotentiAEAI resume builder · 2022 - 2024
An AI resume builder and financial literacy platform for students. Scaled to 2k+ users, partnered with UAE ministries and featured in Khaleej Times.
SomaJournalpsychosomatic wellness journal · 2025
A BERT emotion model fine-tuned on the 58k-entry GoEmotions dataset reads each entry, and a body map correlates the detected emotions with predicted physical symptoms alongside DERS and SSS clinical assessments.
DigiJockeygesture-controlled DJ game · 2024
A DJ game you play with your hands. OpenCV hand tracking and MediaPipe gesture recognition drive the decks in real time.
Dynamic Memory Allocatorcustom malloc in C · 2025
Built memory allocator in C with explicit free lists, segregated storage and block coalescing, with performance competitive against glibc malloc.
Neo-Lockbiometric IoT lock · 2023
Prototyped v1 and v2 to deter urban theft. Funded by 1517 VC Fund (Medici Grant).
TheVSportsBlogsports analysis blog
Made a sports blog in HS analyzing team and player performance, using statistical analysis and ML models for match predictions. Got 30K+ views.
Honors
- Swartz Undergraduate Innovation Scholar7 of 150+ selected · 2026
- McGinnis Venture Competition Finalistgraduate track, only undergraduate · 2025
- 1517 Medici Grantfor Neo-Lock · 2023
- Math: UKMT Gold (Top 6%), IMC Elitist (Top 2%)high school
- Debate: #13/450 teams at Intl Comp @Yale, #1 Ranked Jr Debate Team in Bahrainhigh school
