Experience.
Four roles across hardware, ML research, AI agents, and product work, and each one taught me a different way of breaking things.
Brunswick Corporation
May 2025 to May 2026
Backend Development Intern · Champaign, IL
Built a CV pipeline, a LangGraph boating agent on Azure, and an Android client for a CES demo to the CEO of a $5B company.
- Engineered a computer vision pipeline using template matching and AI integration to extract nautical symbols from PDFs. Improved accuracy by 45%+ and saved an estimated $500K+ annually.
- Built an AI boating agent using LangGraph with tool-calling, deployed to Azure and shown by Brunswick at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES).
- Developed a full-stack Android app in Kotlin and Jetpack Compose for the agent, integrating LLM API calls and dynamic UI for a CEO-level presentation.
- Python
- LangGraph
- Azure
- OpenCV
- Kotlin
- Jetpack Compose
- Android Studio
OpenMind AI
Jan 2026 to May 2026
Software Development Intern · Remote
Shipped a gamified habit-loop product in Godot plus a React companion site, designed with a Brown psychology researcher.
- Ideated and developed a gamified approach in Godot to rewire habit loops, working from psychological techniques contributed by a Brown University psychology researcher.
- Built and deployed a companion React-based website that wraps the OpenAI API with custom system prompts.
- Godot
- React
- OpenAI API
- TypeScript
- Tailwind
URSA Undergraduate Research
Jan 2025 to May 2025
Undergraduate Researcher · Champaign, IL
Designed deep-learning pipelines that classify vehicles from multimodal IoT data (audio + vibration) using Vision Transformers.
- Designed a deep-learning pipeline to classify vehicle types from multimodal IoT data (audio + vibration) using spectrograms and Vision Transformers.
- Built supervised and self-supervised pipelines to improve accuracy on sparse datasets.
- Achieved 20%+ accuracy improvement and 40% reduction in training epochs through self-supervised pretraining.
- Python
- PyTorch
- TensorFlow
- NumPy
- Pandas
Disruption Lab
Jan 2025 to May 2026
Project Manager · Champaign, IL
Ran market research and shipped a Next.js MVP plus a custom AI chatbot used in a UIUC / IBKR / Bridgewater trading competition.
- Conducted market research and client interviews to launch a subscription model for an AI-powered patent search tool. Connected the client with a $20B+ enterprise partner.
- Developed a Next.js MVP that uses AI to review, compare, and store legal documents, streamlining client workflows.
- Built a custom AI chatbot (model selection, system prompts, document grounding) and a companion site used in a UIUC, IBKR, and Bridgewater trading competition.
- Next.js
- React
- TypeScript
- OpenAI API
- Tailwind
- MongoDB