Engineer — San Francisco, CA
Back-end engineer with 5+ years at Microsoft and Kwartile. Now pursuing robotics, real-time sensing, and human-centered systems.
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I'm a back-end engineer with 5+ years building scalable, cloud-native systems. From real-time data pipelines at Microsoft to ML-driven platforms at early-stage startups.
After earning a Computer Science degree from UC Davis, I joined a startup where I built an entity resolution model with 97% accuracy, spun up real-time streaming infrastructure, and engineered a data platform from concept to production. Then I scaled up at Microsoft, reducing API latency by 59% and automating 80% of onboarding workflows.
I took a deliberate sabbatical in 2024 to redirect. I discovered robotics, started teaching myself ROS2, participated in a hackathon, and built my own arm end-to-end. I learned that creation is the whole point.
A physical robot designed from scratch to respond to human interaction — rolling dice on command. Built to learn the fundamentals of ROS2, Gazebo, and RViz through hands-on construction. The constraints were simple; the lessons were not.
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A 24-hour robotics hackathon where I collaborated with a mixed software and mechanical engineering team to build a robot designed to interact with both humans and other robots. A lesson in intersectional design and diverse perspectives.
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A data platform that makes it easy to incorporate privacy-safe practices into ML pipeline building — applying sanitization and vector embedding with industry best practices to protect personal information.
View projectAn ongoing research proposal: designing an accessible, private, and accurate robotic prosthetic that returns full user functionality and offers personalized collaboration during rehabilitation. Driven by distributed computing and ML.
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