Cantina Labs is a social AI company building next-generation real-time AI models that push the boundaries of expression, personality, and realism, bringing characters to life and redefining how people connect and create.

As a Senior Staff iOS Engineer, I provide technical leadership for Cantina’s iOS platform, shaping architecture and driving the delivery of core experiences at scale. I lead cross-functional initiatives spanning product, design, and backend systems to enable real-time, AI-driven social interactions with high performance and reliability. I influence long-term technical strategy, raise the bar for engineering excellence across mobile teams, and mentor senior engineers to build resilient, scalable systems that support the company’s evolving AI ecosystem.

Worked with iOS core team to build highly performant and complex iOS experience by pushing the limits on real time interactivity at Airtime. We are building a social streaming platform for togetherness that allows user to gather with friends and explore the Internet (music, videos, photos, TV, movies, games and more) together.

Amazon Prints - Developed prints service and photo builder experience using React Native application (iOS, Android) offering professional photo printing service to create standard and large prints, wall decor, cards, photo books, and canvases right from the mobile app and get it delivered by Amazon.

loading/cropping/editing, cache management, 3d thumbnail preview, and data platform

canvases used by millions of active users

Amazon Photos - Worked on Photos iOS (Swift, React Native) mobile app offering secure online backup for photos and videos, people recognition, abuse detection, data platform, and more for Amazon Photos, bringing unlimited full- resolution online photo storage to Amazon customers.

Amazon Flex - Worked on an iOS (Swift, Objective-C) app for Amazon Flex platform integrating with Amazon Cloud Cam for secure in-home and in-car delivery used by Delivery Partners to provide an efficient, on-time, and reliable delivery service to end customers.

Amazon Last Mile - Develop service for Amazon Prime Now and Flex applications to ensure delivery confirmation and safe delivery tagging for packages

Playpower Labs, a Carnegie Mellon educational research initiative. I've worked as a Lead Game Developer at Playpower for 4 years and most of my time at Playpower has been spent creating games for building core math skills that provide a foundation for success in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM). I have worked extensively on dozens of games on multiple platforms over 4 years. I don't just believe that fun aids learning—i believe learning is fun.

Lead team of 3 and developed an Intelligence-Building App on iOS (Swift) for kids with HTML5 games, videos, facts, books, and design tools

Lead team of 5 developers and published an award-winning platform (iOS and Android) with 100+ game levels and 80+ Common Core State Standards support for grades 1-8 with free games for fractions, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, math facts, and number sense.