✧ AI Agents & Payment Automation

✧ Founded HustlHub, a business management & scheduling platform for dorm-based businesses, leveraging AWS, Stripe Payments, and Google Calendar API.

✧ Scaled to thousands of users across multiple universities, generating tens of thousands in transactions via scheduled appointments.

✧ Won UCSC’s Premier Startup Competition for innovation and business impact.

✧ Led product development, growth strategy, and team operations.

✧ Built an internal framework to collect query performance metrics with Linux and macOS tools, enabling analysis of distributed query processing on various device configurations.

✧ Produced actionable insights that identified bottlenecks and improved system throughput by 25%.

✧ Developed high-level distributed query plans on different devices to measure latency, throughput, and network overhead using CloudLab.

✧ Optimized partial aggregation of gene expression matrices with Apache Arrow and Meson, improving performance by 40%, with CPU/memory profiling via macOS Mach API.

✧ Developed a touchless palm recognition system using Python, OpenCV, and Nvidia Jetson Nano, implementing a single-shot model to detect 21 3D keypoints per hand.

✧ Enabled real-time biometric identification with >95% accuracy, improving prototyping speed and reducing false positives by 30%.

✧ Conducted unit testing across proprietary hardware protocols to ensure system reliability and performance.

✧ Mentored the next generation of leaders in tech

✧ Delivered 12 projects from ideation to completion