Cognitive Scientist · Builder · Writer
Currently
building AI tools @ Dynasty, SF
UC Berkeley Cognitive Science (3.9 GPA, Dean's List) — minors in Political Economy and Education. Research in a language lab, strategy at EY-Parthenon, AI consulting in London. Now building systems at Dynasty in SF. I also write a lot about how people learn, think, and talk.
Some of my projects
Engineering
Full-stack recruiting platform
Parses resumes (PDF/DOCX), extracts GPA, athletics, leadership, and sales signals, scores candidates using a weighted ranking model, and presents results in an interactive web dashboard for recruiter review.
Automated evaluation for 200+ applicants, cutting manual screening time
Finance
Stripe billing reconciliation & ARR audit
Audited and cleaned 160+ historical Stripe purchases, matching payments against contractual fee schedules (valuations, rush fees) to verify ARR and one-time charges and correct reporting discrepancies.
Improved accuracy of ARR reporting across 900+ transactions
Operations
SF office search & expansion planning
Led office search efforts across San Francisco, evaluating spaces against cost efficiency, team capacity, and long-term operational scalability to support company growth.
Drove end-to-end expansion planning for a scaling startup
Regulatory
Government onboarding & regulatory filings
Supported legal and operational onboarding through regulatory filings, registrations, and government verification procedures for a trust company operating in a compliance-heavy environment.
End-to-end regulatory process management
Automation
Vendor & catering automation (DoorDash)
Designed and implemented automated workflows for company-wide meal delivery coordination and bulk procurement, significantly reducing manual administrative overhead and optimizing team logistics.
Eliminated manual coordination for recurring vendor orders
AI & Automation
Slack lunch bot & AI tooling suite
Engineered a lunch automation system using Google Apps Script, Slack webhooks, and Google Sheets. Built an Azure trend-monitoring bot (saving 12+ hrs/week), a 63-tool AI catalog, and AI Slack bots driving ~30% engagement lift.
~25% reduction in task completion time across internal workflows
EdTech
PEAR — peer tutoring matching platform
Founded a P2P tutoring platform serving 300+ students with 52 mentors. Developed a JavaScript-based weighted bipartite matching algorithm cutting manual effort by 70%, coordinating 100+ sessions/month.
85% of participants improved academic outcomes
AI
AI prompt library & model training
Built an AI Prompt Library to train models for specific internal workflows, and created an Azure Industry Trend Monitoring Bot automating real-time market tracking for the team.
~25% reduction in task completion time; 12+ hrs/week saved
Writing
Research & Publications
IEEE · 2019
Pomelo: A Collaborative EdTech Interaction Robot
An interactive robot teaching children algorithmic thinking via collaborative games — published with IEEE at age 15.
Paper
The Benefits of Learning Block-Based Coding Languages
How Scratch-style programming and peer learning foster deeper coding comprehension in early learners.
Language & Cognitive Development Lab, UC Berkeley
48-week on-site research with Dr. Mahesh Srinivasan on children's novel concept formation and category knowledge. Designed experiments, analyzed complex datasets in R, contributed to publication pipeline.
Work
Beyond the resume
Speaking
Skills & tools