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A product designer and software engineer building intelligent systems.

Role
SWE, Tesla
Focus
AI · Product
School
UC Berkeley EECS
Based
Berkeley, CA
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About.

~1 min read

I'm a software engineer and product designer based in Berkeley, finishing my B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley.¹

I work at the seam of engineering and design. I care equally about the model and the button it sits behind, the graph and the person reading it. Right now I'm at Tesla on the AI Infrastructure team, building computer vision pipelines, RAG diagnostic tools, and NLP review systems that quietly turn weeks of manual engineering work into hours.

Before Tesla I shipped at Cisco (Silicon One SDK), Covenant.finance, Biomonadic, and AsyncHealth. I led design at Blockchain at Berkeley.²

Off-screen — warriors fan, aspiring DJ, always planning the next flight.

¹Coursework: Distributed Systems, Advanced NLP, Database Systems, Cloud Computing, ML, Computational Biology, UI Design, Computer Security. GPA 3.8 / 4.0.
²Two years as Head of Design + PM. Sourced consulting with Ripple, Circle, EigenLayer, NEAR Protocol.
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Experience.

6 roles
Sep 2025 → Hayward, CA CURRENT

Tesla.

Software Engineer Intern · AI Infrastructure

  • Trained CNNs on 3K+ images to detect weld defects, reducing manual inspection by 84% and saving $15K per cycle.
  • Built RAG diagnostic tools and NLP linting systems, reducing manual review time by 75%.
  • Shipped a diagnostics pipeline turning service docs into telemetry visualizations, 63% faster field diagnosis.
PyTorchOpenCVFastAPIReactAWSRAGNLP
Jun → Sep 2025 San Jose, CA

Cisco.

Software Engineer Intern · Silicon One SDK

  • Built device utilization analysis for the network processor compile pipeline. Automated TCAM and SRAM extraction across ASIC architectures and SDK versions.
  • Designed a React, TypeScript, FastAPI, and SQLite dashboard scaled to 100+ engineers, cutting prod debug downtime by 50%.
  • Side project: multi-sensor PCB arc-fault prediction fusing acoustic, optical, and ASIC data with Fourier features.
ReactTypeScriptFastAPISQLiteLSFPyTorch
Jun → Aug 2024 Remote

Covenant.finance

Frontend Software Engineer Intern · web3 platform

  • Built a referral system with on-chain addresses, social handles, and a live leaderboard, supporting 2.5K+ active users.
  • Worked directly with the CEO on UX and marketing alignment for the growth loop.
ReactNodeVercelethers.jsWeb3
Jun → Aug 2023 Remote

Biomonadic.

Software Engineer Intern · biotech

  • Built a bioreactor manufacturing dashboard with time-series visualizations, lab data inputs, and predicted vs. actual cell counts.
  • Integrated AI-generated protocol recommendations and embedded GPT Q&A for manufacturing workflows.
PythonD3.jsChart.jsOpenAI
Jun → Sep 2023 Remote

AsyncHealth.

UI/UX Design + Software Engineering Intern · clinician mental health

  • HIPAA-aware interface redesigns for clinician-facing mobile and desktop platforms.
  • Competitor research and a Firebase tester app for consumer data flows.
FigmaFlutterFlowFirebaseHIPAA
Feb 2023 → Apr 2024 Remote

Birth By Us.

Project Manager + Full-Stack Developer · maternal health

  • Built wellness check-in workflows, survey analytics, and care-insight UIs end-to-end, supporting 150+ users.
  • Spanned PM and engineering across frontend, backend, and analytics layers.
AngularJSNodeExpressMongoDBReact
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Projects.

8 selected
P/01

Berkeley EECS RAG

End-to-end retrieval pipeline over Berkeley's EECS site. CPU-only, 4GB RAM, 30-min runtime cap. Built a 200+ question validation set and tuned via error analysis. +20% retrieval and generation quality vs. baseline.

Python · FAISS · BM25 · Transformers · OpenRouter
Spring 2026
P/02

x402 Trust Discovery

Reputation-aware service discovery for autonomous AI agents. Combined semantic retrieval over 73 services with graph re-ranking over 920 payment edges and 100 synthetic wallets. PageRank degraded MAP by 50% versus semantic retrieval.

Python · NetworkX · SentenceTransformers · Pandas
2026
P/03

DataSea 1st DeFi · ETH Miami

Encrypted data streaming with dynamic NFTs. Leveraged Ocean Protocol for secure transactions. Full-stack development and product design across mobile and desktop in Figma.

React · Figma · Ocean Protocol · Web3
view ↗
Oct 2023
P/04

NFDeed 2nd · ETH Miami

On-chain mortgages collateralized by property NFTs. Mortgages-as-subscriptions via Unlock Protocol — when the term ends, the NFT is revoked. Buyer and seller dashboards.

Unlock SDK · JavaScript · Figma
view ↗
Oct 2023
P/05

SimpleFi

DeFi for newcomers. Long-tap Playground Mode for risk-free exploration. Context-aware AI assistant Sophia explains every page. Redesigned onboarding around first-time users.

Figma · UX research · DeFi
behance ↗
2023 — 2024
P/06

StablePay

B2B stablecoin to fiat conversion platform. Yield dashboard for passive income via stablecoin protocols, AI-generated finance education, and a browser plugin for stablecoin checkout anywhere.

Product · Figma · Web3 · B2B
P/07

S1XT33N voice car

DAC and ADC with a comparator, motor controller with transistors and encoders, microphone board with band-pass filters, closed-loop control, and a cluster classifier for voice commands. Hardware to ML.

Circuits · DSP · ML · EE161
Spring 2023
P/08

ATLAS

LLM agents representing buyers and sellers in online marketplaces. Adaptive negotiation strategies with market analysis. Autonomous transaction workflows.

LLM agents · negotiation
2025
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Leadership.

Berkeley

Blockchain at Berkeley

Head of Design · Product Manager · Frontend Lead · Head of DEI · 2023—2025

Led design and product across a 100+ person organization. Sourced and managed industry consulting projects with Ripple, Circle, EigenLayer, and NEAR Protocol. Taught Intro to Frontend Development, led product design interviews, recruited product designers, and built the organization's website.

Conducted UX research and shipped SimpleFi, NFDeed, and DataSea (ETH Miami first place).

Design LeadershipProduct ManagementUX ResearchCurriculumRecruitingConsulting

    Other affiliations

  • 01Cloud at CaliforniaEDU
  • 02Claude Builder ClubAI
  • 03Society of Women EngineersSWE
  • 04Assoc. of Women in EECSEECS
  • 05Girls Who Code @ BerkeleyGWC
  • 06FemTechHEALTH
  • 07CalSolSOLAR
  • 08CodifyDEV
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Skills.

by category

Languages 10

Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, Java, C / C++, SQL, Go, Solidity, Rust, Swift.

AI / ML 12

PyTorch, TensorFlow, OpenCV, Transformers, FAISS, BM25, RAG, CNNs, LLM agents, AutoGen, OpenAI, Gemini.

Frontend 7

React, Next.js, TypeScript, D3.js, Chart.js, Figma, FlutterFlow.

Backend 9

FastAPI, Node, Express, Django, Flask, SQLite, Postgres, MongoDB, Redis.

Infrastructure 8

AWS S3, Lambda, ECS, RDS, Docker, Vercel, GitHub Actions, LSF.

Web3 7

ethers.js, Unlock, Ocean Protocol, x402, Stablecoins, Dynamic NFTs, Wallet integrations.

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Impact.

aggregate · 2023 → present
N/01 Less manual inspection on the CV pipeline Tesla · weld defect detection 0%
N/02 Saved per inspection cycle Tesla · CV automation $15K
N/03 Less manual review time Tesla · NLP linting 0%
N/04 Faster field diagnosis Tesla · RAG diagnostics 0%
N/05 Engineers using my Silicon SDK tool Cisco · diagnostics dashboard 0+
N/06 Cut in prod debug downtime Cisco · compile pipeline 0%
N/07 Images trained on the CV pipeline Tesla · CNN model 3K+
N/08 Better RAG quality Berkeley · CS 288 0%
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Contact.

always open

Let's build something brilliant.

Open to AI/ML internships, product design and engineering roles, and side projects with kind people. Especially if it involves agents, retrieval, or web3.

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