02 / Experience

Where I've worked

Startups across SaaS, aviation risk and fintech, mostly as an early or first technical hire.

Work experience

Jul 2025 – Dec 2025

B2B SaaS startup for billboard advertising; Next.js site that standardizes language in advertiser RFPs.

Joined as an early technical hire with no existing engineering processes or documentation
Traced misaligned outputs in the RFP translator to unconventional write logic in its translation layer
Documented the bug and briefed an external dev team on the codebase to implement the fix

Jun 2024 – May 2025

AI startup building risk models for aviation, rail, and maritime transportation.

Compiled historical NASA aviation incident records into structured datasets for model training

Sep 2024 – May 2025

LMU’s student-run consulting firm serving outside clients.

Built a scraper that collected happy hour deals for a client from restaurant websites and the Yelp Fusion API
Selected the project’s data sources and split technical work across the team

Jun 2023 – Aug 2023

Crowdfunding platform startup.

Built a logistic regression model in Python to flag fraudulent transactions in real time, reaching 90% accuracy
Automated the team’s manual after-hours transaction review; the model was deployed on the live site

Aug 2020 – May 2025

Loyola Marymount University

Graduate focus on backend and machine learning systems.