Experience.

Summer 2026

Capital One

Software Engineering Intern

Slack assistant for the operations teams. It streams answers token by token and waits for a human before doing anything that matters.

2,500+ users across 10 teams
100+ queries a day, response time cut in half
SSE streaming, DynamoDB state, Dockerized on AWS ECS Fargate

2025 – 2026

Empower AI

Software Engineering Intern

Fraud, waste, and abuse detection on federal healthcare data. I built the data pipelines and the model evaluation setup.

30M+ Medicare and Medicaid records
97% accuracy, 98% recall
Isolation Forest, LOF, and one-class SVM, packaged for audit

Summer 2025

Ackuity

Software Engineering Intern

A Chrome extension that catches sensitive data on its way into ChatGPT and redacts it before it leaves the browser. It has to run as you type.

40+ types of PII and credentials, in real time
Across 3 LLM platforms
DistilBERT fine-tuned on 40,000 synthetic examples, exported to ONNX

Spring 2025

Kihara Bioinformatics Lab

Machine Learning Research Intern

Reinforcement learning on protein structure prediction. I wrote a custom reward function and a PPO pipeline to improve AlphaFold2 output on beta-amyloid.

100+ protein structures evaluated
5% lift on the target metric
PPO in Python and PyTorch, PyRosetta and PyMol for preprocessing

2024 – 2025

CTB Inc.

Data Science Intern

Predicting equipment failures before they happen. I built the models and the pipelines that fed them.

30% better anomaly detection, and less downtime
Decision trees, Isolation Forest, and XGBoost in Python
Cleaned 10,000+ equipment records, cutting 800+ faulty entries

2022 – 2024

STEMVocate

Founder & Executive Director

A 501(c)(3) running free STEM workshops for elementary students across Virginia.

100+ volunteers, 2,000 students reached
$15,000 secured in funding
17,500+ reached through school partnerships and outreach