Started working at YouTube in San Bruno in June 2025 on the InnerTube Core team working on infra as a SWE. I had some of the best mentors here, and learned a lot about how big systems work at Google scale. I wrote super optimized c++ code, and even worked on designing streaming infrastructure for gen ai use cases. Super grateful for this and the people on my team who helped me learn so much in a short amount of time. However, I felt like I wanted to work harder, and do more AI facing work in the future.

Graduated from the University of Michigan with a CS major and Math and Music minor in May 2025. This experience has been the most fulfilling of my life. College is a place where you can be curious, figure out what is interesting, make relationships, see people from backgrounds you didn't know existed, and learn how to make decisions. I sometimes wish that Umich had more diversity in terms of economic backgrounds, but regardless, I learned so much, met so many amazing and smart people, and had experiences that I will never forget. It's time to get tf out of Ann Arbor though.

Graduating from the University of Michigan at the Big House!

After a rigorous application and interview process, I was selected as one of 150 Neo Scholar Finalists in Fall of 2024. Neo is a startup community that supports and fosters current and future founders. My interest in startups started during my gap semester, and I heard about how great Neo was through 2 of my buddies who were Neo Scholars. I applied with no expectations and ended up getting through the interviews and being selected! I was able to meet so many crazy driven and super intelligent people. My imposter syndrome definitely hit hard when I was meeting people my age who have started insane startups, or have done very interesting ML research, but it inspired me to work harder and continue on my path of learning so that one day my entrepreneurial mindset can take charge. Below is a picture of the Neo scholar finalist NYC meetup where I linked up with some fellow Umich students! I have been able to meet so many founders through this and am excited to continue to be active within the Neo community.

Neo Scholar Finalist NYC Meetup where I linked up with some fellow Umich students!

During Summer of 2024, I interned at Capital One again, but this time in the Chicago Office. I was apart of Team OutOfCtrl in Card Tech Partnerships. My intern pod consisted of some really smart and awesome people, and I had an amazing manager as well. The problem at hand: end to end testing the new decision orchestrator for credit card applications at Capital One takes way too long, and it also was very hard to debug. So our project was pretty simple, create a full stack app where you can input a applicationId and output the responses from each API within the decision orchestrator. To do this however, we would have to really understand how the decision orchestrator works so that we can create a DAG of the dependencies. As to retrieve the data from these endpoints, we needed to input different parameters, but we wanted to take care of that in the backend. We coded the project with a Go backend, and React Typescript frontend, making the backend API calls concurrent based on the level of the DAG. Throughout the summer, I worked on frontend design, backend design, the DAG for dependencies, and contributed to many parts of the backend and frontend. The best part of this project was other engineers at Capital One were our stakeholders, so we constantly met with different engineers to gauge feedback on design and improve our product. Before the summer ended, we already had 50+ engineers using our product, and potentially much more after we left. In fact, we even caught other interns using our product for help debugging an endpoint, and they didn't even know we made it! We helped cut the time for end to end testing by 33%, saving engineers' valuable time, and thus saved the company money. In the future, our product could be used by 100s of engineers so they can better debug the decision orchestrator. I loved this internship because I was able to help make something that actually is going to be used by many engineers and that will help the company save money. Additionally, I was able to learn Go which is a really cool language. Lastly, and most importantly, I loved this internship because I was able to be meet and become very close with the so many intelligent, kind, and amazing people while connecting with the other Capital One Chicago interns.

Connecting with fellow Capital One Chicago interns.

My intern pod: some of the smartest and most awesome people I've worked with.

I interned at Capital One apart of their Technology Internship Program (software engineering internship) my sophomore summer in Mclean, VA. I was able to work with a wonderful team full of interns from colleges across the country. We were given a problem from our manager and sought a way to fix it. The problem: data stewards at the company were overwhelmed and it was hard for them to learn what they had to do. We interviewed employees at the company, garnered feedback, and designed a solution for this. We created a slack app/bot using basic NLP and ML techniques and leveraged internal API's within Capital One to help automate tasks for these data stewards; additionally, our product helped provide them resources to help with onboarding. We again met with data stewards to further refine our product and by the end of the summer we were able to present our project in front of Directors and even VPs at the company. This first started my interest in ML and since I have taken Intro to ML at my school as well as joined the Michigan Data Science Team so I can work on more ML projects. I learned a lot throughout this internship, specifically pertaining the workflow of a software engineer, but my favorite part of this internship was exploring the DC area and making lifelong relationships with my intern class.

Exploring the DC area with my wonderful intern class.

I grew up playing soccer competitivley since I was 3, and also loved playing basketball with my friends. So with this passion for sports, two friends and I started a "luxury" recreational sports company when I was in high school, and continued this in college. The idea was that we wanted to make rec sports more fun, more interesting, and more youthful; we wanted to create a vibe more in tune with the late teen early 20s demographic. For example, in our main basketball league, the "JBR Champions League", we garnered over 150 participants with our new game format, weekly writeups full of jokes, predictions, and recaps, an All Star Game with cash prizes including a 3pt contest and dunk contest, a huge trophy, and weekly professionally curated mixtapes of our games. We have hosted tournaments and leagues for basketball, volleyball, and even NBA 2K; plus we have sponsored athletes in the past, gotten sponsored by companies, and hosted a tournament all the way in Florida (we all live in Michigan)! My favorite JBR event was when we partnered up with the Saline Fair during Summer 2022 to host Kids Day and raise money for Saline Area Social Services; we set up some sports for the kids and also acquired a bouncy house and a dunk tank that we took turns in. Our most recent tournament was Fall 2022 where we hosted a frat basketball tournament with 10 different social frats across Umich. Since then we have all been super busy with school and our lives but hopefully one day we can bring JBR back!

Hosting tournaments with weekly professionally curated mixtapes.

Partnering with the Saline Fair to raise money for social services.

For about a year and a half, I worked as a student clerk/coder at the Surveys of Consumers within the Institute of Social Research at the University of Michigan. The Surveys of Consumers is a monthly survey that uses it's results to gauge economic sentiment in the country. I was in charge of helping with the transition of going from phone surveys to web surveys, as well as many administrative tasks. Just from doing my job, I was able to read how people from around the country percieve the current state of the economy, and I was fascinated by the variance and similarities in these responses. The team at the Surveys of Consumers is so awesome, and I was able to work with super kind and smart people while I worked there.

Alpha Kappa Psi is a business fraternity and I joined the Umich chapter in my second semester freshman year. Now, I haven't held any board positions for the org (although I have helped with several comittees within the org), but I wanted to include this here because of how important this organization has been to my personal and professional development. There are so many incredible, intelligent, and interesting people in this org and just from hanging out with them I have learned so much. I have really been able to refine what I want to do professionally because of AKPsi, and have gotten so much help with my resume, interview skills, and overall industry knowledge. I think more importantly, because of this org, I am constantly surrounded by people doing crazy awesome things, whether it is starting their own startups, traveling around the world, or just simply following their passions, and it really motivates me to follow suit, or do my best to try to. Lastly, the community and friends this org has brought me is priceless, and I am so grateful to have joined!

A priceless community of friends and mentors.

Constantly motivated by people doing crazy awesome things.

Intus Care is a health care analytics platform startup whose cofounder happened to have went to my high school. Back when they were super small, I was able to do some research within the long term health care space, and wrote reports to further refine their healthcare analytics platform. Since then, Intus Care has expanded, opening offices in New York, and raising a Series A.

Huron Valley Pace is an all inclusive health care place for the elderly. I volunteered here actually to teach the employees basic and intermediate excel skills. I previously got Microsoft certified in Excel and Powerpoint, and also competed in excel competitions through Business Professionals of America, where I won 6th place at Nationals. I took up this opportunity as I thought it would be a good way to apply my excel knowledge, and was intruiged by the opportunity to learn how to teach and create my own course. After teaching weekly classes throughout the summer, I recieved lots of postitive feedback from the employees and also felt very personally accomplished. All my students were evidently older than me, so this was an interesting experience, but I really matured a lot, and was proud of myself for being able to stand up in front of a ton of educated adults and teach them the intracies of Excel!

I went to a predominatley white high school, where microagressions and implicit biases were explicitly apparent. Specifically, during my Junior year, my school made national news twice for racist events. Now, I had certainly felt some level of racism throughout my time at Saline, but at this point I had felt enough was enough: I had to do something. With the help of 3 of my friends and my very knowledgeable AP Chem teacher, we started Students Against Racism. Our plan was to educate the youth in our school district about implicit biases and diverse perspectives so that the future of this school district would be in better hands. We spent hours as a club educating ourselves, and once we felt comfortable, we would create lesson plans and go into (or zoom into) elementary school classrooms to educate them. Additonally, we helped setup the diveristy hub in our high school, as well as create a mental health room in accordance with the Student Board for Diversity and Inclusion. This experience was pivotal as it showed me the power of standing up for what you believe in, and showed me how important taking that first step is in making a larger change. Additionally, I learned a lot from my AP Chem teacher who mentored us as we started this club, specifically about how to better keep an open mind. I am happy to say that this club is still running back in Saline as well!

The club is still running back in Saline as well!