• Awarded a scholarship from the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program at UC Berkeley to pursue graduate studies focused on machine learning engineering, software engineering, and platform engineering.

• Awarded the I School Fellowship from the UC Berkeley School of Information.

• Selected as a Big Ideas Winner for a Master of Information Management and Systems degree capstone project, competing against top innovative solutions on campus.

• Awarded the James R. Chen Award for Outstanding MIMS Final Project (Spring 2025).

• Participated in a three-month entrepreneurship boot camp for transforming innovative concepts into compelling business models at the UC Berkeley Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology (SCET).

Communities:

• Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program at UC Berkeley

• Information Management Student Association

• National Society of Black Engineers

• Black Engineering and Science Student Association

• Black Graduate Student Association

• ColorStack @ Berkeley

• International House at UC Berkeley

• Revamped “ChatPPIC” AI chatbot for the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC), optimizing user experience and improving content retrieval in a public policy context.

• Upgraded and maintained web application built on PHP and Expression Engine CMS, performing backend improvements, component updates, and module management to ensure site reliability and flexibility.

• Collaborated with the GSPP web development team to iteratively enhance Expression Engine, based components and templates, streamlining content delivery and maintainability.

• Managed IT support ticketing via Freshservice, prioritizing critical issues to reduce response times and ensure uninterrupted service across digital platforms.

• Built backend infrastructure using Django, PostgreSQL, and Mapbox for live ingestion of user reports, clustering of geospatial data, and dynamic map-layer integrations.

• Engineered location-based alert notifications and report moderation tools, supporting community accuracy and trust through features like “mark flood as cleared,” “helpful,” or user-flagging for review.

• Guided product-market fit with a pilot roadmap: preparing for on-the-ground testing in Accra (June–July 2025) in partnership with local stakeholders like the Ghana Online Drivers Union and Makola Market vendors.

• Created a foundation for civic data: Crowdsourced reports, including photos and timestamps, provide raw datasets usable by city planners for flood mitigation, drainage improvement, and resilience planning.

• Engineered backend data pipelines and schemas to support booking and scheduling features for structured storage and retrieval for downstream analytics.

• Automated deployment workflows by scripting reproducible cloud environments (infrastructure-as-code), which reduced manual server setup.

• Implemented API endpoints for secure scheduling, payments, and calendar integration, optimizing latency and reliability for production readiness.

• Developed mock datasets to simulate EHR (Electronic Health Records) integrations, accelerating prototyping while awaiting vendor credentials; ensured data formats aligned with ML preprocessing needs.

• Designed compliance-aware system architecture by mapping HIPAA, FERPA, and COPPA overlaps, ensuring data governance frameworks suitable for health-related ML applications.

My role revolved around the development and management of software applications. This involved designing user interactions on websites, developing servers and databases for website functionality, and ensuring cross-platform optimization for mobile devices. I handled tasks from the front-end, involving the user-facing part of applications, to the back-end, which covers server-side operations. I built, designed and maintained web applications, ensuring smooth functionality at both the client and server sides, creating a cohesive and optimal user experience.

FluxWater is a social tech enterprise that helps Water Service Providers in Kenya and Sub-Saharan Africa affordably digitize and optimize antiquated analog water systems. Flux provides software and data-driven solutions for efficient water management and affordable water service provision, especially to the rural and urban poor to drive the implementation of United Nation's SDG6, for a secure water resilient African future!

Responsible for:

• Web application development for FluxWater and AccessWASH®.

• Data management.