I love making cool stuff that solves problems.
📍 Dallas → Toledo → Shanghai → 🏠 Los Angeles → 🐻 Berkeley → NYC
🎓 Cal '25
- building
- gamified AI security crack.fun
- AI automations for software government contractors
- high yield consumer cash account leveraging stablecoin lending markets
- just graduated from UC Berkeley (studied electrical engineering & computer science)
- teaching members of Blockchain @ Berkeley how to build full-stack web3 apps
- my dev course is now responsible for 400k+ in hackathon winnings, 1 acquired startup, & 3 raises from top VCs
previously,
- realtime data streaming and apps at Chainlink
- founding engineer at a DeFi (Decentralized Finance) lending platform with novel capital efficiency mechanisms that achieved over $850 million in user deposits and became one of the top 50 protocols in all of DeFi by TVL (total value locked).
- founding engineer at Simplify (YC W21), which helps people discover jobs and internships on its web platform, then 1-click apply using its auto-filling browser extension
also build projects ⬇️
projects without a page (yet):
- OmiSwap - transact on-chain using intents derived from voice commands, won ETH Global SF
- calculate.rent - split rent fairly by square footage
- munchmansion.com - semi-viral fake zoo in Berkeley
- OracleLayer - deploy actively-validated Oracles on EigenLayer from web2 APIs & data sources
Projects
Donna
created a viral AI Secretary that screens your calls
Spotter
Created an AI powered tool for first responders that won at CalHacks 10 (October ‘23)
Biascope
Developed a browser extension to highlight fake news and political bias that won at the HackUCI hackathon
Chores Bot
Created a chore assignment and scheduling tool to autonomously manage tasks for my house of 10 friends
Agency Jekyll Theme
Converted a Bootstrap theme into a Jekyll theme with over 15k downloads
Twitter GraphQL API Scraper
Reverse engineered Twitter’s internal GraphQL API to scrape profile data
Cosmos On-Chain Analytics
Built a web-app to analyze & display Cosmos chain data via SQL queries
Handwriting (MNIST) Classification Implemented in Assembly
Implemented a classification algorithm in RISC-V assembly language to read pictures of handwritten numbers from the MNIST database
3D Printed PPE
Started a local community movement to address the PPE shortage at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Face Shield Stack Generator
Built a script to generate the perfect stack of face shields for any 3D printer
STL to OpenSCAD File Converter
Created a tool that converts STL files into OpenSCAD modules with ease
Statistical Arbitrage Automated Trading Strategies
Experimented with statistical arbitrage through correlated pairs trading
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