Resume
Applied AI Engineer | Forward-Deployed Engineer
Applied AI and forward-deployed engineer with customer-facing delivery experience across full-stack. Works directly with operators and domain experts to turn ambiguous workflows into production systems across web, mobile, backend, AI agents, and cloud infrastructure.
Education
Michigan State University, College of Engineering
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, 2021–2024
GPA: 3.84
Minor: Computational Mathematics, Science & Engineering (CMSE)
Cognate: Business
Professional Experience
Forward-Deployed Full-Stack Engineer
Airlink Flight School · 2025–Present
- Led technical discovery directly with the flight-school owner, instructors/pilots, and administrators, mapping how they used FlightCircle alongside paper records, manual scanning, file storage, and email-based FAA submissions.
- Owned end-to-end delivery of a web and mobile operations platform covering admissions, scheduling, grading, lesson planning, and reporting for approximately 200 recurring users across multiple roles.
- Digitized the recurring student-grading process, eliminating paper grade sheets, manual scanning, record lookup, and email-based submissions; reduced administrative workload by approximately 60–70%.
- Designed an offline-first grading workflow for instructors operating in-flight on unreliable connections, using local persistence and conflict-aware synchronization to preserve training records across devices.
- Led the platform’s evolution from an initial Python/FastAPI and Firebase implementation to a production stack built around TanStack Start, PostgreSQL, Better Auth, Railway and Cloudflare.
- Owned the production delivery cycle across application architecture, data migration, authentication, deployment, Cloudflare WAF, and Turnstile.
Applied AI Engineer
Allwhile · 2026–Present
- Bootstrapped an intelligence platform for independent restaurants that combines competitor research with owner-authorized sales and financial data to track performance, detect market changes, and prepare campaign drafts for review.
- Built AI workflows using probabilistic decision models to assess competitive moves and local opportunities; combined model confidence, source evidence, and deterministic policy to surface recommendations for owner review.
- Developed Zen, a conversational interface that lets owners investigate business and market questions through evidence-backed answers, with persistent conversations and clear handling of insufficient data.
- Interviewed 10+ independent restaurant owners and translated recurring frustrations with cost, time, and fragmented tools into product requirements, data models, and full-stack workflows.
Software Engineer
One Community Global · 2024–2025
- Built and maintained full-stack features for the open-source Highest Good Network using React, Node.js, and MongoDB; fixed role-based permission leaks across the application.
- Improved frontend performance by 20–30% through caching, redundant API-call removal, and code optimization; reviewed 40+ pull requests, authored 15+, and helped coordinate a seven-person engineering team.
Info-Tech Assistant Intern
Computational Mathematics, Science & Engineering, Michigan State University · 2023–2024
- Automated departmental data-management workflows using Python, C++, SQLite, ORCID, and Zotero APIs, replacing manual spreadsheet-based processes.
- Built publication tracking and reporting tools that consolidated research, funding, and publication data for faculty and department administrators.
- Migrated outdated data structures into a more accessible format, improving how department staff retrieved and maintained information.
Teaching Experience
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant
Department of Physics & Astronomy, MSU · Jan 2022–Apr 2024
- Supported instruction across five physics courses (PHY 183, PHY 184, PHY 222, PHY 233, and PHY 234B) for more than 250 students, including students in engineering, biomedical, and other science programs.
- Led help-room sessions and individual tutoring, adapting explanations of physical principles and mathematical problem-solving to different levels of preparation.
- Collaborated with faculty on supplementary teaching materials and problem sets, adapting instruction to students with different academic backgrounds.
CoRe Tutor
First-Year Engineering CoRe Experience, MSU · 2022–2023
- Provided semester-long tutoring in physics and calculus through group and individual sessions, helping students strengthen conceptual understanding and problem-solving skills.
- Led group review sessions ahead of midterms and finals, presenting key concepts, working through practice problems, and addressing students’ questions.
Selected Projects
See All Projects → for a complete list.
OnlyAgents · AI Agent Runtime
Go, WebSockets, SQLite, LLMs, Event Bus, Tool Calling
- Built an open-source, model-agnostic runtime for autonomous AI agents with executive-worker orchestration, event-driven coordination, tool calling, connectors, and persistent memory.
- Designed a kernel-mediated execution model with a typed event bus, preventing direct agent-to-agent calls and centralizing lifecycle management, routing, and capability boundaries.
- Implemented dynamic tool gating and on-demand tool groups so agents load only the capabilities relevant to the current task, reducing unnecessary context overhead and tightening permission boundaries.
- Built layered memory across working context, semantic episode retrieval, time-scoped knowledge-graph relationships, and behavioral pattern extraction.
- Optimized the runtime into a 36 MB single binary with approximately 27 MB idle memory and 31 ms startup time.
Pickle · Private Remote Development Lab
Go, tmux, WebSockets, Tailscale, Docker, PWA
- Built a Go-based remote development environment exposing persistent tmux sessions, shells, local projects, development servers, and Docker Compose services through a browser and mobile-friendly interface.
- Added private remote access through Tailscale Serve and a mobile home-screen experience while keeping development sessions and project data on the host.
- Added process-aware support for Codex, Claude Code, OpenCode, Pi, and Hermes, with opt-in notifications for completed work and required approvals.
Text-to-Action · Natural-Language Action System
Python, Transformers, PyTorch, Semantic Search, NER
- Built an open-source system that translates natural-language requests into executable application actions across APIs, chatbots, and voice-driven workflows.
- Implemented semantic retrieval and parameter-extraction pipelines using embeddings, LLMs, and named-entity recognition; reached 1,500+ installs.
Enhanced Video Assistant · TechSmith Capstone
Python, FastAPI, React, Docker, Azure, FFmpeg, Machine Learning
- Built and deployed an award-winning full-stack video assistant combining transcript analysis, metadata extraction, audio processing, and visual scene understanding.
- Integrated open-source machine-learning models to automate audio enhancement, generate multi-layered feedback, and identify key moments in video.
Picko · Personalized Recommendation System
Python, FastAPI, SQLModel, PostgreSQL, React Native, Semantic Search
- Built and deployed a recommendation engine using TF-IDF, cosine similarity, and semantic search for personalized movie, television, and book recommendations.
- Designed a 300,000+ item relational dataset with high-concurrency query paths and automated ingestion and refresh pipelines.
Skills
Languages: Python, Go, C/C++, TypeScript/JavaScript, SQL
AI/ML: LLM applications, OpenAI API, tool calling, agent orchestration, semantic retrieval, embeddings, persistent memory, PyTorch, scikit-learn, NLP, computer vision, recommendation systems
Backend & Data: FastAPI, Node.js, TanStack Start, REST APIs, OAuth, Better Auth, PostgreSQL, Firestore, MongoDB, SQLite
Cloud & Deployment: Docker, GCP, Firebase, Neon, Railway, Cloudflare WAF/Turnstile, Azure, Supabase, CI/CD, Tailscale
Frontend & Mobile: React, React Native, Expo, Tailwind CSS
Awards
- Auto-Owners Exposition Award — Enhanced Video Assistant, 2024
- Dean’s Scholarship — $75,000 merit-based scholarship, 2021–2024
- Best Emerging Technology Award — Brainwaive, 2023
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