experience

industry

Felicis

Venture Fellow

Menlo Park, California Jan. 2026 - present
  • Evaluated 30+ early-stage startups across AI infrastructure, developer tooling, and frontier technology sectors by analyzing product-market fit, technical differentiation, and venture-scale potential.
  • Synthesized insights from 50+ founder conversations and ecosystem analyses to identify emerging investment theses across inference, agent infrastructure, and next-generation compute platforms.
  • Produced 3 investment memos and strategic analyses that informed sourcing priorities, partnership evaluation, and internal investment discussions.

Groq

Product Partnerships Intern

Palo Alto, California Sep. 2025 - Dec. 2025
  • Drove cross-functional execution of developer programs across marketing, developer relations, and engineering, supporting events reaching 10K+ developers.
  • Built developer event strategy using ROI analysis, engagement KPIs, and audience segmentation from prior activations, improving developer participation and project conversion rates.
  • Led Groq's presence at technical conferences including AI Dev NYC and NeurIPS, driving 100+ developer projects and expanding ecosystem adoption.
  • Translated technical capabilities into developer-facing messaging, contributing to increased product awareness and API adoption.

Cognichip

Product + GTM Intern

Redwood City, California May 2025 - Aug. 2025
  • Conducted competitive analyses across 15+ products to evaluate technical differentiation, market positioning, and go-to-market viability, informing product roadmap and strategic prioritization.
  • Architected a scalable Jira-based operations system to coordinate cross-functional execution across product, engineering, partnerships, and GTM workflows.
  • Synthesized ongoing competitive intelligence and market signals to identify ecosystem shifts and deliver strategic recommendations shaping go-to-market direction and positioning.
  • Secured 2 university partnerships to accelerate product validation, early-user adoption, and high-signal feedback loops within technical student communities.

Taltrics

Software Engineering Intern

Berkeley, California Jun. 2024 - Aug. 2024
  • Conducted usability studies and A/B testing to evaluate product workflows, driving a 60% reduction in project documentation time.
  • Collaborated cross-functionally with executive leadership and designers to iterate on prototypes and shape product roadmap decisions through user feedback analysis.
  • Developed frontend product features using TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS for an AI-powered project management platform, leveraging user and market research to guide implementation.

research

Rijo-Ferreira Lab

Machine Learning Research Assistant

Berkeley, California Apr. 2026 - present
  • Engineered a YOLO- and OpenCV-based computer vision system for mosquito locomotor tracking and circadian rhythm analysis from experimental video datasets.
  • Built Python pipelines using NumPy, Pandas, Seaborn, and Matplotlib for time-series analysis, statistical modeling, and behavioral data visualization.
  • Automated video preprocessing, trajectory extraction, and graph generation workflows to support scalable biological data analysis.

Data Governance & Privacy Strategy

Tech Policy Fellow, WWC Certification

Berkeley, California Jan. 2025 - May 2025
  • Led feasibility analysis for Montana's first WWC certification initiative by evaluating data governance architecture, privacy compliance, and operational readiness across municipal systems.
  • Developed a phased implementation roadmap for DM3 and DM5 certification requirements, balancing technical complexity, organizational capacity, and execution timelines.
  • Synthesized stakeholder interviews, policy literature, and cross-city case studies into strategic briefs and executive-facing presentations that informed decision-making for city leadership.

LLM-based analysis of national security strategies

Undergraduate Researcher, Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts Feb. 2024 - May. 2024
  • Led a cross-functional research initiative analyzing global cybersecurity strategy, digital infrastructure resilience, and state-level cyber capabilities to evaluate determinants of national cyber power.
  • Synthesized insights from academic literature, policy reports, and geopolitical threat models to design quantitative evaluation metrics for a comprehensive cyber power index.
  • Developing an AI-driven ranking framework leveraging LLMs to systematically score and compare countries across cybersecurity readiness, offensive capability, and technological influence.

Stress analysis of recurve bow limbs

Undergraduate Researcher & Passion Project, UC Berkeley

Berkeley, California Mar. 2022 - May. 2024
  • Engineered high-fidelity CAD replicas of Olympic recurve bow limbs in Fusion 360 and executed 2,000+ structural simulations across varying load conditions to model deformation and energy transfer.
  • Investigated carbon fiber layup geometries and stress distributions to evaluate how composite structural design impacts bow stability, vibration damping, and shot consistency.
  • Self-taught concepts in linear algebra and material deformation mechanics to bridge FEA simulation outputs with real-world mechanical behavior and performance optimization.

Mis-centering calibration and X-ray-richness scaling relations in redMaPPer clusters

Research Assistant, UC Santa Cruz

Santa Cruz, California Jun. 2022 - Feb. 2023
  • Processed and analyzed 500+ galaxy cluster observations using Python-based astrophysical data pipelines, running 30+ scaling relation models to estimate cluster mass distributions from multi-parameter observational datasets.
  • Conducted statistical analysis on categorized astronomical data to identify implicit algorithmic bias toward high-luminosity galaxy clusters and evaluate downstream effects on mass estimation accuracy.
  • Primary author of a peer-reviewed publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS), leading experimental design, large-scale data analysis, visualization, and scientific manuscript development.

leadership

Cal Hacks

President

Berkeley, California Sep. 2023 - Dec. 2025
  • Directed a 40-person team to scale the flagship event to 3,300 attendees and 700 projects, driving 230% YoY growth and making it the largest collegiate hackathons globally.
  • Successfully led an emergency pivot to run Cal Hacks' first solo AI Hackathon with 1,400+ attendees and 350+ projects after a last-minute partner withdrawal.
  • Built and managed an end-to-end sponsorship pipeline targeting 2,000+ companies and 10,000+ contacts, sourcing and closing $1.5M+ in funding from partners including Google, Anthropic, Y Combinator, Scale AI, and Lambda.