TL;DR: forward-deployed engineer. I have shipped for the DoD, a bank, a government startup and a paying client. Graduating December 2026.
I build systems that keep working after I leave.
Jobs where someone hired me to ship.
Forward-Deployed Engineer · May 2026 – Present
Turned 52 conflicting requirements into specs two software vendors could build, under strict IL5/CUI security rules.
Forward-Deployed Software Engineer Intern · Jan 2026 – Sep 2026
Built a 24-source contract scraper and data pipeline for a government startup. Deploys went from weekly to same-day.
Software Engineering Intern · Summer 2026
Shipped changes to internal tools at a regulated bank, through enterprise code review and compliance.
Contract Software Engineer · Jan 2022 – Present
Built a paying client's AI phone line, payments and website. The AI answers from the company's own data (RAG).
Technical Support Specialist · 2018 – 2022
Owned technical incidents from start to finish, and wrote the triage playbook the team adopted.
Every job and my degree on one line, 2018 to now.
Amazon, Technical Support Specialist, 2018 – 2022. Orleans Cleaning, Contract Software Engineer, Jan 2022 – Present. UCF, B.S. Computer Science, Aug 2022 – Dec 2026. GovSignals, FDE Intern, Jan 2026 – Sep 2026. DoD (DIU), Forward-Deployed Engineer, May 2026 – Present. BNY Mellon, SWE Intern, Summer 2026.
UCF · Aug 2022 – Dec 2026 · 3.73 GPA, Dean's List
Things I built, solo or with a team. Tap a row in the list for details.
Knight Hacks IX · team of 4 · Oct 2026
A VR-controlled rescue robot with all its AI on a Jetson board. Prizes from NVIDIA, Hugging Face, Full Sail and Encompass.
GPU-accelerated quant trading platform · live
A bot that trades futures on its own (MES, MNQ, MGC), with broker stops, reconciliation and kill switches.
ShellHacks · AI irrigation autopilot
An AI that decides when to water crops, from soil, insect and weather data.
BloomKnights · Winner, Best Use of Google Gemini
Watch a game through Ray-Ban Meta glasses: Gemini names the sport and the browser tracks every player.
Multi-tenant SaaS power dialer
Each company's data is walled off (row-level security and roles). Calls run over WebRTC to the phone network; event-driven signaling replaced polling.
Built with Next.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Twilio, WebRTC, Docker.
ringora.appGPU applied-AI media pipeline
Whisper transcribes on the GPU in batches, Gemini scores each moment on Hook, Flow, Value and Trend, FFmpeg cuts the clips, and failed jobs retry.
Built with Python, Whisper, Gemini, FFmpeg, CUDA, Flask.
HackMIT 2026 · team of 4
Glasses video goes to item recognition, a resale price and a marketplace listing. A human approves every listing and every negotiation.
Built with Swift, Meta Wearables SDK, WebRTC, Node.js, Gemini Vision, Shopify API.
GitHubPersonal Intelligent Pathfinder · ShellHacks
An iPhone streams color, LiDAR depth and position into a live 3D map. The rover explores and plans paths behind a safety gate a human controls.
Built with Swift, ARKit, Python, FastAPI, React, Three.js.
GitHubAI tutoring iPad app
Reads Apple Pencil handwriting, finds the first mistake and gives a targeted hint. A second AI checks every hint so it never leaks the answer.
Built with SwiftUI, PencilKit, React, TypeScript, Claude Sonnet.
Agentic opportunity tracking platform
Runs on Workday, Greenhouse, Ashby and YC, and an AI sorts every failure. The browser driver swaps behind a one-flag rollback, and every fix passes CI first.
Built with Python, Playwright, CDP, LLM agents.
4 pull requests I wrote, reviewed and merged by the maintainers of Starship, Streamlit and Nautilus Trader.
