Production systems with real users: three engineering internships, a nonprofit's entire platform as CTO, and fixes merged upstream into vLLM, Keras, VS Code, and the Kubernetes inference-routing SIG.
Software engineering is the core. Everything else is a stop along the way — each one a place you've just flown through.
Shipping production features across three engineering internships — Doro, HireBuddy, and BU Spark!. CTO and sole engineer of an international 501(c)(3)'s system of record, live across 15+ chapters behind a 250+ endpoint REST API. TerrierTracker serving ~950 students, as sole developer. The design work counts too: I authored the architecture and phased rollout plan for BU Spark!'s proposed unified database — an Airtable/Postgres hybrid sync feeding a portfolio generator, CRM, and project tracker — through three adversarial design-review rounds, recording which flagged risks were fixed and which were rejected as over-engineering.
65 pull requests across 24 repositories in 17 organizations — including vLLM, llm-d, KServe, Grafana, Datadog, Redis, Keras, VS Code, and the Kubernetes SIG for inference routing — 23 merged by core maintainers including the project lead. My specialty is defects that fail silently or misreport state. The most recent landed in Grafana core, shipping in 13.3.0: removing a tag from an annotation never unlinked it, because a column list forced a zero-valued ID into the DELETE predicate so it could never match. Each fix ships with the regression test that proves it.
Co-developed HireBuddy's GPT-4o-mini pre-screening engine, scoring candidates across 10 evidence-backed dimensions with anti-hallucination safeguards that override the model's self-reported matches using profile evidence. Built a LangGraph + MCP agentic workflow (KnowFlow) that automates InstructLab knowledge contributions, and replaced a quota-limited third-party LLM in TerrierTracker with a zero-marginal-cost vector-embedding semantic recommendation engine. I contribute upstream to the LLM inference stack itself: vLLM, llm-d, SGLang.
Undergraduate research assistant at BU's Center for Innovation in Social Science: conjoint survey and vignette design, and pre-analysis plan preparation, for dissertation research on financial-market responses to geopolitical uncertainty. I ran a pre-registered ablation on my own ML model and cut the graph component when the no-graph MLP won — 0.633 against 0.613 test macro-F1. In August 2026 I joined BU's H2X Lab (Human-to-Everything, College of Engineering) as an undergraduate research assistant, and this fall I am a Course Assistant for CS 132 (Linear Algebra / Geometric Algorithms).
BostonHacks 2025, DS+X 2025, and Best Use of AI among 70+ participants at the Red Hat–IBM OpenAccelerator Hackathon — where the solution was accepted for upstream evaluation into Red Hat's official InstructLab open-source project.
From Hong Kong to Boston — a CS student in BU's Kilachand Honors College who builds software for real people, not just demos.
Software engineering is the job I want and the work I already do: shipping production features across three internships, running an international nonprofit's entire 250+ endpoint platform as CTO and sole engineer, and maintaining TerrierTracker for ~950 students. What makes me unusual is the scale of the range around that core — 65 open-source pull requests across 17 organizations, 23 merged by core maintainers of projects like vLLM, llm-d, and Redis; a specialty in bugs that fail silently, every fix shipped with the regression test that proves it; root-causing a recurring production outage on a live university server; and undergraduate research at BU's Center for Innovation in Social Science.
Conversational AI agent that lets domain experts contribute knowledge to InstructLab models without touching Git or YAML. Won Best Use of AI among 70+ participants at the Red Hat–IBM OpenAccelerator Hackathon; accepted for upstream evaluation into Red Hat's InstructLab project.
BU Spark!'s project gallery and staff admin portal, built and deployed as sole author — including a template-aware parser that extracts structured project data from free-text Google Docs without an LLM, and multi-semester identity resolution that merges duplicate people and projects.
The official event site for Clash of the Titans — the world's largest in-person student film challenge, hosted by the American School of Paris, where nine international schools race to plan, shoot, and cut a short film in under 48 hours. Built the full site end-to-end with a cinematic, film-stock design system.
A subscription learning platform for IB Film educators and students — gated lessons, courses, and a blog with tiered Stripe subscriptions and role-based access (including automatic HSCA educator verification). Full-stack build with NextAuth, a Prisma/Neon Postgres backend, an admin content studio, and S3-backed uploads.
