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 of 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: Landed in Denmark to begin my semester abroad at DIS Copenhagen, focusing on AI Ethics, Deep Learning, and Arctic Geopolitics.
June 2026: Began 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 owned the hiring pipeline and various operational workflows.
September 2026: Started as Tech Lead for JumboCode, a Tufts club which does pro-bono development for nonprofits. Partnered with Somerville-based Hearty Meals for All to build them a grant, donor, and meal-impact tracker.
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)
• Served as forward-deployed engineer for key accounts, shipping custom features and integrations that generated >$150,000 in revenue
• Architected an agentic GCP-hosted data-retrieval system (LangGraph) spanning SQL, web, and video tools, serving up to 1K daily queries
• Rebuilt the LLM Text-to-SQL engine using few-shot learning, doubling response accuracy and tripling speed across all query types
• Designed and shipped a sport-agnostic PostgreSQL schema and migration, scaling the platform from a basketball-only design toward tens of thousands of games across sports
• Led full-stack development of a multi-tenant React dashboard as tech lead, driving $75,000 in annual per-client revenue
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
