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Software engineer building life safety systems. When I'm not working, I'm probably reading about AI. When I'm not reading about AI, I'm probably building with it.

Boston, MA · BS Computer Science, UMass '23

// Projects
01
Astrud→
A personal AI with two agents: one talks, one works behind the curtain. Self-organizing memory from a Rutgers research paper. She lives on Telegram and reaches out on her own.
02
IGA Tour→
Full-stack golf tournament platform spanning the entire lifetime of AI agentic coding. Live scoring, social feed, casino mini-games, and generational wealth that's a curl request away. 20+ users.
03
GeoScrapbook→
Pin photos to places on a map. My first product with a buy button. Built it after a trip to Europe, shipped it, it's live at geoscrapbook.com.
04
Flahr Image Studio→
Built my own UI for iterative AI image generation because Google AI Studio was horrible for it. Generation chains, multi-turn editing via thought signatures, character consistency that's indistinguishable from reality.
05
Laurel→
GRE vocabulary trainer with AI-generated sentences and spaced repetition. Built for my girlfriend in the time it took her to go to spin class.
06
Cadence→
Edit video by editing text. Point it at a talking-head recording, get a transcript, delete sentences to cut the video. Tauri desktop app with an LLM agent for restructuring.
07
LeetCode Tutor→
Socratic AI tutor with a five-level hint ladder and a persistent competency profile. I was too stubborn for LeetCode, and then there was Claude.
08
UNavigate→
College visit recording app built for a non-technical founder. Configuration-driven forms, offline-first sync, 7,000+ colleges. Currently in development.
09
Smart Plant Monitor→
Give your houseplants a personality and let them text you when they're unhappy. ESP32 with a camera, an LLM agent hosted inside Astrud, and a Telegram account. Early development.
10
Fitly→
Native iOS wardrobe app. Photograph your clothes, describe the occasion, and nano-banana generates a mockup of you wearing it. Shelved — the models aren't quite there yet.
// Experience
Software Engineer — Life Safety Systems
2024 — Present
Own the middleware layer between safety network hardware and operator interfaces — all messages pass through my component, where correctness is life-critical. Introduced AI tooling across the engineering org, taking a team of veteran engineers from zero to daily use. Rapidly built a packet decoder with AI that cut network debugging from weeks to hours.
BS Computer Science — University of Massachusetts
2023
Software Engineering Intern — Life Safety Systems
2019, 2021 — 2022
Three rotations on the same team. Built the original codebase for a feature that shipped to customers in 2025.
Specialist — Apple Store
2019
Loved this job. Met some really cool people, customers and coworkers (mostly customers). Had to give it up to take my first software engineering internship.