Experience

• Ion (YC W24) - software engineer. Built Ditto, a deterministic website cloner. Jun 2026 - Present
• Vaxon Space - software engineer. Built the company's web platform, including an interactive 3D globe of their VLEO satellite constellation. 2026 - Present
• NIH, National Eye Institute - research intern, Bharti Lab. Worked on and trained LipidUNet, an AI model for retinal disease, and ran my own RPE cell culture. Dec 2023 - May 2025
• AstraZeneca - business development intern. Shadowed research, clinical operations, and business development across the drug pipeline. Summer 2024
• George Mason, ASSIP - research intern. Designed interfering peptides for cancer immunotherapy and published the work. Summer 2024
• Sanaria - research intern. Mapped mosquito lines for the PfSPZ malaria vaccine and co-authored a peer-reviewed paper. Aug 2023 - May 2024
• Johns Hopkins, Grayson Lab - research intern. Designed 3D-printed implants and a surgical jig for stem-cell extraction. Summer 2022
• Kids For Code - co-founder. Taught over 10,000 students to code across 37 states and 11 countries. 2021 - 2025

More stuff

• SplicR - turns pooled CRISPR screens from raw reads into a ranked hit list for labs.
• Ditto - open-source deterministic website cloner. 1k+ GitHub stars, #2 on Product Hunt.
• Kids For Code - nonprofit that taught 10,000+ kids to code.
• 42 merged open-source pull requests - across 29 orgs (LanceDB, Sentry, Cohere, Pydantic, and more).

• Verity - pre-payment healthcare-fraud tripwire built only from public federal data. Found $55.9M paid to providers after they were barred. DNHacks 2026.
• Kairos - live AI command center for anonymous school-threat reporting, triages each tip in 8.2 seconds. YC Call My Agent hackathon.
• Ara Co-Pilot - macOS earpiece for live calls, transcribes on-device and answers from your calendar and email. Ara.so x DayDreamers hackathon.

• 1st Place Biology, Montgomery Science Fair - AstraZeneca Exceptional Award for malaria vaccine work at Sanaria. 2024
• Battelle Climate Change Finalist - Nitrogen Storm Drain, winner of a $1,500 grant. 2023
• Science Olympiad Regionals - placed 1st, 3rd, and 6th across events, qualified for State. 2023
• JSHS Regional Qualifier - Junior Science and Humanities Symposium, ALS extension and microneedle patch. 2023
• MIT THINK Participant - optimization and classification framework for remote explosive detection on high-dimensional, imbalanced data. 2022, 2023
• Montgomery Science Fair Sweep - ASM Materials Award, NOAA Award, US Stockholm Junior Water Prize, EPA Encouragement Award. 2022
• eCYBERMISSION State Winner - led a three-person team on drug repurposing for wet AMD, $1,000 bond. 2021
• Explorovision Participant Award - ALS research on astrocyte phenotype conversion in the CNS. 2021, 2022
• United We Learn Contest - MCPS school-notes recognition for contest placement. 2020

Skills