Jun 2025 – Dec 2025 · 6 mos · San Francisco, California

• Experimented & prototyped for various business opportunities. Spent a lot of time in San Francisco and got to use a lot of AI. Here are some cool things that have happened.
• Built a map that shows where to go or not go in 172 cities around the world. Got 3k+ visitors in 1.5hrs from a short-lived Reddit post. Try it out https://pleasetrymyapp.com
• Prototyped a Chrome plugin that provided a way to give agentic control over websites to complete complex tasks and show custom generated UI (creative use of Claude Code as a backend subprocess)
• Built an MVP for an AI pharma video ad generator.
• Launched my private label Amazon product.
• Had a landing page for a fitness app idea that got waitlist signups.
• Had interviews with OpenAI.
• Spent time at Founders Inc.
• Went to dozens of AI and tech events in SF and talked with many founders.
• Developed an Agentic AI OSINT tool for a hackathon event.

Oct 2023 – Jun 2024 · 8 mos · Fairfax, Virginia, United States · Remote

• Proptech startup that aimed to replace buyer's real estate agents with AI. Built agentic AI. We had a Y Combinator interview for the W24 batch and I was ranked as a top 5% founder applicant. Met with top founders in the proptech startup space.

Jun 2022 – Jun 2025 · 3 yrs · Austin, TX · Hybrid

• Built critical SSL/TLS & PKI infrastructure that manages almost 100M certificates for 20% of the web.
• Integrated SSL.com as Cloudflare’s first new certificate authority (CA) in over 3 years, which has since been used to issue 92M+ certificates, and which significantly reduced catastrophic Internet-scale outage risk.
• Executed large-scale CA migrations for 10s of millions of domains, materially changing the top global CA market share rankings while maintaining zero customer downtime.
• Eliminated 4.5B ms of daily compute overhead by reducing execution time of the company’s worst-performing database query (in production for years) from 55 ms to <1 ms on a workload executed 100M+ times daily.
• Designed and shipped the #1 most customer-requested SSL/TLS feature, enabling customers with external authoritative DNS providers to fully delegate Domain Control Validation (DCV) to Cloudflare, preventing certificate issuance failures and outages; the system manages 100s of thousands of pending validation tokens.
• Owned and delivered many high-impact projects end-to-end, resulting in 7 public Cloudflare blog posts (linked below), and presented my technical work to 1000s of employees at a company-wide meeting.
• Regularly worked with Go, PostgreSQL, Redis, Grafana, Prometheus, Jaeger Tracing, Kibana, and Kubernetes.

Jun 2021 – Jul 2021 · 1 mo · McLean, Virginia, United States · Remote

• Developed React.js components for Cvent's redesigned venue sourcing portal.
• Brought InVision-designed emails to fruition, implemented back-end email services in Java, and used Postman and RabbitMQ in testing.
• Successfully adopted agile methodology, participating in sprints and scrum ceremonies.
• Reduced team sprint workload by taking on additional tasks assigned to teammates.

Jun 2020 – Aug 2020 · 2 mos · Belmont, California, United States · Remote

• Presented comprehensive CCaaS competitive analysis to SVP of Contact Center, VP of Platform, and senior PMs and SEs.
• Led team of nine other interns in the annual company "Shark Tank" new product pitch competition - presented to 300+ employees.

Sep 2019 – Oct 2019 · 1 mo · Valencia, Valencian Community, Spain · On-site

• Watched criminal court proceeding recordings and read legal paperwork in Spanish.

May 2019 – Sep 2019 · 4 mos · Charlottesville, Virginia Area · On-site

• Contributed Treeminer CUDA implementation to the Rodinia GPGPU Benchmark Suite.

Aug 2018 – May 2021 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Charlottesville, Virginia Area · On-site

• Led multiple weekly lab sessions and held office hours for Python courses.
• Proctored and graded midterm and final exams.
• Graded hundreds of homework assignments.
• Was the first and only TA hired to work in the 1st semester of college (I had completed this course myself while I was still in high school).

Feb 2019 – Jun 2019 · 4 mos · Charlottesville, Virginia, United States · On-site

• Sold 168 tech items and custom designed RFID blocking cards (the latter sourced on Alibaba) on eBay for profit margins ranging 30% to 70% over a semester of my 1st year of college.
• Achieved a high sales-to-reviews ratio and received excellent shop ratings through personalized handwritten thank-you notes.

Jun 2018 – Aug 2018 · 2 mos · Charlottesville, VA · On-site

• Fixed and serviced hundreds of student laptops.

Jun 2017 – Aug 2017 · 2 mos · Charlottesville, VA · On-site

• Fixed and serviced hundreds of student laptops.