Jun 2023 – Mar 2024 · 9 mos

• StoryMage.ai - Thought leadership (in your own voice).
• We work with top founders and teams - Andrew (Series B Consulting), Disco (Series A).
• Andrew got 9 inbounds and 4-5x increase in impressions in a month.

Jun 2021 – Jun 2024 · 3 yrs

• Consultancy to help founders get to their first 10k MRR - https://founderscafe.io

May 2020 – Jul 2021 · 1 yr 2 mos

• "I feel like I never actually get to talk to [my friends] and then now I'm speaking to them like three hours a day, so to be completely honest, Sesame is probably the best... thing about TAMS so far."
• one excited TAMS student
• https://sesamecall.com

Sep 2019 – Sep 2019 · 0 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

• Full stack development

Aug 2019 – Mar 2020 · 7 mos · Stanford

• You probably didn't know that I'm gay. I've always struggled finding community when few of us are 'out.' To address this, I’m working with 10 other Stanford students on building Queer Chart. It’s a social network for queer people to make friends, share events/meetups, and discuss topics.
• Our mission is to bring the queer community together. We have 220 Stanford queer folks on Beta 2.0.

Jun 2019 – Aug 2019 · 2 mos

• Most people don't look at porn during work. I built ML algorithms that detected it at Facebook.

Mar 2019 – Jun 2019 · 3 mos · Cape Town Area, South Africa

• Given a picture of a diseased tree, made ML algorithm to locate other diseased trees. Used an unsupervised deep learning approach (Beta Variational AutoEncoders). Learns image features in embeddings, then can lookup image similarity through embedding similarity.

Aug 2018 – Aug 2019 · 1 yr

• ● $25k Monthly Revenue. $10k Monthly Profit. 120k$ revenue generated after one year
• ● Through extensive product research, found viable niche for product and effectively differentiated product from competition
• ● Facilitated negotiations with China supplier resulting in high profit margins (40-50%) and quality-assured goods
• ● Launched product successfully– in 2.5 months, product ranked from #1378 to #5 of niche and gained 70 reviews (4.3 stars average)
• ● Managed Amazon and Facebook advertising campaigns, increasing the ranking of product while maintaining profitable margins

Jun 2018 – Aug 2018 · 2 mos · Greater Seattle Area

• ● Worked in a team of three and developed an Android app in Java that reduces political polarization in media; Collaborated on Github.
• ● Built infrastructure and used synchronization techniques to control access to common resource by multiple threads.
• ● Created news population algorithm: Given user's political affiliation, generates & utilizes beta distribution (PDF) to curate news feed.
• ● Built user interface, data visualization platform, SQLite client-side handlers, & client to parse and display top news from external API

Jun 2017 – Aug 2017 · 2 mos · Mounds View

• ● Developed Excel software in VBA that saves Medtronic $400,000+/year (2 FT) by optimizing the data collection & lab testing process
• ● Gained practical knowledge of product development life cycle by bringing an idea from concept to prototype
• ● Gathered user needs from engineers & other potential users of the prototype & materialized user needs into Excel Macro functions & features. Performed cyclic code reviews & implemented feedback during development
• ● Developed documentation suite for macro installation. Trained 60+ people on installation & use of the macro.
• Device Development Solutions // Hardware Test Group

Jul 2016 – Feb 2017 · 7 mos · University of Pennsylvania

• Sexual assault prevention wearable. Can send texts for help or call to police. Incorporated, provisional-patented.
• ● Developed front-end and back-end for company website
• ● Engineered working MVP prototype with Arduino; created app mockups; designed the user interface for Android app
• ● Conducted market research by interviewing UPenn students & compiled business plan.

Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 · 3 yrs

• Minecraft Multiplayer Server that was first ran off laptop & grew into a 5-figure startup
• ● $61k Total Revenue. $39k Profit.
• ● Individually managed hardware investments (ddos-protected 64GB Intel Xeon E5 E5-1620v2), software (CentOS, coding java plugins), and ingame mechanics (buildings, gameplay, ranks, player-retention) of multinational Minecraft server
• ● Managed investments and advertisements up to $1,700 and partnered with famous Youtuber JeromeASF (4.3+ million subscribers)