Hi! I’m in tech with a background in Philosophy and Computer Science. I love coding and systems architecture, but also think deeply about life’s big questions and how tech can improve our lives, not just make them easier.

Experience

2024 — NowAlight SolutionsSenior Software Engineer

2024 — Now

Infrastructure analysis and development for customer-facing conversational tools, including generative AI and rule-based systems.

Lead cross-functional collaboration to ensure technical alignment during a major platform migration.

Monitoring with New Relic and AWS CloudWatch, along with feedback collection and analysis for production and demo tools.

2022 — 2024Alight SolutionsDigital Product Analyst

2022 — 2024

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Work alongside Alight’s IVA (Intelligent Virtual Assistant) team to fine-tune conversational AI by accurately identifying user intent and delivering hyper-personalized responses.

Partner with development teams on quality assurance testing and validation for newly developed IVA capabilities before they move to production environment

Instrumental in Alight’s adoption of new generative AI technologies - created a demo to illustrate

ChatGPT capabilities alongside embedding search (demo escalated to CTO)

Organize debug meetings with cross-functional teams to fix features before moving to production

2020 — 2022Juni LearningPython Instructor

2020 — 2022

Tutor elementary on Python fundamentals and high school students on advanced algorithms in Java.

2021 — 2021Project ReclassSoftware Engineer Intern

2021 — 2021

Develop a golang bot and deploy it to a three-node Kubernetes cluster to facilitate infrastructure

research towards reimagining Project Reclass’s production systems.

Implement chatbots in golang; dockerize and deploy chatbots as Kubernetes workloads

Live demo Kubernetes’ self-healing capabilities in response to pod or node failures at external event

Prepare then deliver internal lightning talks on container virtualization with Docker and Kubernetes

Independently contribute features and bug fixes to Project-Reclass/toynet-react

(a containerized React application hosted at toynet.projectreclass.org)

Education

2018 — 2022

University of Chicago

Bachelor's degree

2018 — 2022