I'm a software engineer at Amazon Music building features for millions of users. Lately I've been deep in the AI/LLM space. Building consumer AI apps, working with RAG pipelines, shipping products that use ML to personalize user experiences. I like building things people actually use.

2024 — NowAmazonSoftware Development Engineer

2024 — Now

San Francisco, California, United States

Developed and shipped personalized playlist recommendations using customer interaction history

Shipped optimizations to featured play section, contributing to improved customer retention

Built 3 minigame React Native experiences within the app

2020 — NowYouTubeContent Creator: YouTube and TikTok

2020 — Now

Produce programming and productivity-related content on a roughly weekly basis.

Growing an audience of 5,000+ subscribers on YouTube and 15,000+ followers on TikTok

Accumulated over 250,000 views on YouTube and more than 1,000,000 views on TikTok

2023 — 2023AmazonSoftware Development Engineer Intern

2023 — 2023

San Francisco Bay Area

Revamped the track sequencing algorithm using Java for new users to boost user engagement and improve customer retention

Modified the MySoundtrack widget UI to optimize new user experiences

Improved system efficiency by reducing latency in the process of decorating tracks by artists the user follows by 80% (20 milliseconds)

2022 — 2022Red HatSoftware Engineer Intern

2022 — 2022

North Carolina, United States

Automated internal Git pipelines and workflows with Python and Flask

Upgraded the boilerplate for an internal flask application to make configuration easier

Added tag deletion functionality to an open source Git wrapper Python library

Refactored unit tests and documentation for internal tools

2020 — 2021North Carolina School of Science and MathematicsRyden AI Program Teaching Assistant

2020 — 2021

Durham, North Carolina, United States

Led planning and logistics for a Hackathon catering to 70+ high schoolers from the state of North Carolina

Developed interactive projects using PyTorch to demonstrate AI for social good

Developed Machine Learning curriculum for a wide variety of students and taught it to over 30 students

Education

2021 — 2024

Georgia Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Science - BS

2021 — 2024

2019 — 2021

North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics

High School Diploma

2019 — 2021

2018 — 2019

Ardrey Kell High School

High School Diploma

2018 — 2019

Experience+

Education

Bachelor of Science - BS

High School Diploma

High School Diploma