May 2025 – Aug 2025 · 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• I worked with a cross-functional team to help elected officials quickly access and synthesize policy data and meet other elected officials in the network. Specifically:
• Designed and deployed searchable knowledge base with optimized indexing for policy document retrieval and analysis
• Built RAG-based conversational bot for policy research and member matching with native intro workflows
• Currently used by > 100 mayors in >30 states in the US

May 2024 – May 2025 · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area

• Traveled to 12 countries; trained Muay Thai under a 2x world champion; became a certified personal trainer, nutrition coach, and open water scuba diver.
• Completed full-stack web development and AI Engineering courses;shipped multiple solo MVPs using React/Node/NextJS and AI infra (V0, Cursor, LangChain, Pinecone, n8n, etc).
• Founded and organized a 1,000+ person event series in SF with OpenAI speaker to explore the future of AI interfaces. Grew into an HCI collective with 2k+ members.

Jul 2023 – Apr 2024 · 9 mos

• I was put on the fastest-growing but historically challenging area of the Twitch business to clear ambiguity and accelerate it's growth.
• I created a company-wide strategy for our Mobile app; assembled a product-led mobile team; was the keynote speaker at Twitch's annual mobile summit; launched innovative mobile user experiences and products on iOS/Android that showed high impact to user engagement and monetization.
• Products launched:
• New interactive watch mode for landscape video
• Mobile purchase and recognition flows for monetization (subs, gift subs, bits, and cheering)
• Mobile-first design vision and UX framework
• New monetization experiences (ad-free player upsell, gamification flows, etc)
• [Rated "exceeds expectations" for the past 2 years in a row]

Oct 2019 – Jun 2023 · 3 yrs 8 mos

• I helped creators monetize their viewership. I started 3 different teams during my tenure in this role and built over 20+ products. I was responsible for a large product portfolio of creator support features like Twitch Charity, Creator Goals, Hype Train, Leaderboard, and more. The products my teams and I built generate > $XXXMM in annual revenue and >$XMM in annual charity for Twitch.
• Products launched:
• Twitch Charity + Developer Integrations (Charity API, EventSub)
• Creator Goals + Developer Integrations (Goals API, EventSub)
• Hype Train: Infinite Levels + All-Time High Scores
• Persistent Goals
• Twitch Sub/Bits Matching
• Stream Events
• Golden Kappa Train
• 2023 Bonus Round (w/ Bits Bonus)
• Subscriptions Redesign
• SUBtember 2020 (with Multimonth Subscriptions)
• Tier 2 and Tier 3 subscription benefits
• Instant Emote Uploads
• Emote Auto-Resizing
• Founder Badge v2.0
• Experiments that were winners and losers
• Feature/infra deprecations

Sep 2018 – Sep 2019 · 1 yr

• My focus was on:
• 1) New user onboarding and Listener retention (personalization, recommendations, notifications) working with Engineering, Product, Data Science, Design, & UXR
• 2) Being a platform owner for SoundCloud's growth automation tools and its infrastructure-related decisions. We serve 175M+ monthly reached listeners.

Jul 2017 – Sep 2018 · 1 yr 2 mos

• My core focus was on creator retention and monetization. This included track engagement notifications, quota upsells, channel segmentation, and much more.

Apr 2017 – Jun 2017 · 2 mos

• Developed systems that combined internal user data with marketing automation technology using Braze, Python, PostgreSQL, HTML/CSS, JS, etc.

Sep 2016 – Apr 2017 · 7 mos · Greater Atlanta Area

• IMMCO is a leading provider of HFC/Fiber software solutions to the broadband industry. I PM'ed a team of 20 remote developers and worked with large enterprise telecom clients to build fiber optic network construction software.

Nov 2015 – Dec 2018 · 3 yrs 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

• I founded ETR with my friends to push the boundaries of experiential events, production technology, and artist talent. Since 2015, we've hosted more than 30 events with 3000 unique attendees in SF and NYC while building a community of amazing people.
• ETR now organizes an annual festival between the sunny Pacific coast and ancient Redwood trees: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxAMu5Jft2E

Jun 2015 – Apr 2016 · 10 mos · Palo Alto, California, United States

• Orb was a consumer-priced stereoscopic 3D-360 video camera designed from the ground up for recording virtual reality experiences. I worked on automating video stitching using Python and OpenCV. Orb got accepted into BoostVC and received $50k in funding.

Sep 2013 – Dec 2013 · 3 mos · Mountain View, California, United States

• OpenGov offers a financial transparency and budget intelligence platform for state and local governments. I worked on enterprise sales and business development, selling to local governments and munis across the country.

Jun 2013 – Aug 2013 · 2 mos · San Francisco, California, United States

• Formation 8 is a venture capital firm that provides financial and strategic capital to early growth smart enterprise and energy technology companies, founded by Joe Lonsdale (Paypal, Palantir, Addepar).
• I worked on due diligence of 25+ Seed/Series A pitches and quantitatively analyzed missed investment opportunities using multiple financial datasets. My analyses turned into actionable strategic steps, leading to enhanced dealflow and predictive diligence.

May 2012 – Aug 2012 · 3 mos · Washington D.C. Metro Area

• I worked with a specialized task force created by the Obama administration within the International Trade Administration to streamline business registration processes in post-war Iraq and Afghanistan.
• Fun fact: I participated in a nice teatime with the Iraqi ambassador to the US.

Dec 2011 – Jan 2014 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Athens, GA

• I founded TEDxUGA along with an amazing team of students, faculty, and alumni. We were awarded the university's 'Most Outstanding New Organization' in May 2013. TEDxUGA became institutionalized and is now a cornerstone of student, faculty, & alumni innovation at UGA.