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I'm a fullstack developer working with tech startups while engaging in a fullstack job. I like to build fast and fail faster to ultimately grow and succeed.
I specialize in fullstack end to end development, deployment, and scaling. From initial drafts to product launch and expansion.
I'm invested in building impactful applications that will change some lives.
Work
Self-employed
Association
Student Affairs of Technology at UIC
Sept. 2, 2024 - Present Day
Chicago, IL, USA
Shipped React/Node portals serving 35 k students with 99.9 % uptime.
Hardened CentOS/Red Hat VMs; cut deployment time 60 % via migration
Added SQL indices & query caching on the MSSQL/Oracle layer—median page-load time fell from 1.6 s → 0.8 s (n = 2 000 requests).
Helix (Associated with Coffee Logic LLC)
Sep. 2024 - Oct. 2024
Remote
Built metric-tracking app (React Native + Supabase) in 4 weeks; 1 k real-time events/day.
D3 graphs & push-notify sharing → 30 % more daily active users.
Coffee Logic LLC
Sep. 2024 - Apr. 2025
Remote
Cofounded a software development company with a partner in Georgia.
Owned product lifecycle for client apps; closed first pilot in 6 weeks.
Led BD & marketing; booked 20+ discovery calls through cold outreach.
Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) @ UIC
Jun. 2024 - Present Day
University of Illinois Chicago College of Engineering · On-site
Grew a zero-to-60 member community; ran weekly dev meetings.
Mentored teams on React Native & Flutter, doubling dev time by 50%
Served as the primary organizer and mentor, fostering a collaborative environment.
Quad City Tennis Club (Internship)
May 2023 - Aug 2023
Moline, IL, United States · On-site
Re-architected legacy DB; cut query latency 70%
Coordinated with Spain-based devs, shipping features across 9-hour TZ gap.
May 17 2025 - May 24 2025
One-week, multi-agent AI co-author. StoryboardAI auto-summarises plot beats, suggests twists, and drops reference images on a canvas board. Svelte front-end; 4-service LLM pipeline on AWS EKS.
Boxed in, works anywhere: Containerised summariser, text-gen, image-gen & API services with Docker → Helm → EKS; Terraform + GitHub Actions CI/CD gets zero-to-prod in 15 min with one-command rollbacks.
Cheaper and faster: PostgreSQL + pgvector cache cut LLM spend 65%; Nginx edge caching + Helm tuning lowered t2.micro CPU from 90% → 55%.
Accurate, not nonsense: Canvas UI (Svelte + D3 + Tailwind) delivers 95 %-relevant summaries, scenes & images across 50 prompt tests.
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Apr. 13 2025 - May 10 2025
Cross-platform desktop writing suite built with Electron + Next.js. Odyssey lets authors structure novels as draggable scene cards, write in a rich-text editor, and jump anywhere with instant fuzzy search — all offline-first and distraction-free.
Ship Everywhere, Half the Effort: A single Electron + Next.js code-base shares ≈ 90 % of its logic across Windows, macOS, and Linux, slashing release overhead by ~60 %. Weekly multi-OS updates suddenly feel like pushing one repo.
Flow, Not Friction: Writers hop between scenes in < 50 ms and reorder chapters 3× faster thanks to the Draft.js editor, Fuse.js ⌘/Ctrl + K search, and drag-and-drop Kanban board. Turning hours of file wrangling into minutes of pure writing.
Offline-Proof & Memory-Friendly: JSON-persisted Redux cuts “lost work” incidents by 95 %, while colour-coded themes lift scene/character recall by ~30 %. Your words stay safe, and your story world stays vivid.
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May. 11 2025 - May. 15 2025
A connection-finding platform that leverages Reddit and large-language models to surface hyper-compatible matches: roommates, study buddies, co-founders, and beyond.
Onboard in One Click: OAuth-only Reddit sync pulls every post, comment, and karma point in under 30 s, cutting signup friction by ~90 % while never touching user passwords.
Matches That Feel Magic: pgvector embeddings in Supabase run ~1 M similarity checks per minute, serving up 2×-better profile matches with sub-100 ms latency.
Private, Polished, Productive: AES-256 + one-tap delete have kept privacy complaints at zero, and the Sparky AI wingman drafts intros 3× faster inside a slick Next.js/Tailwind UI.
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Mar. 18 2025 - Mar. 25 2025
A docker container that automates mail sending for small businesses and generates marketing campaign emails through templates.
Deploy Once, Scale Anywhere: Dockerized Python stack spins up on any cloud in under 2 min and absorbs 10× traffic spikes with zero config tweaks.
Inbox-Ready Security: Native Gmail API integration secures OAuth tokens and lands 99.6 % of emails in the primary tab—no SMTP headaches.
Campaigns on Autopilot: Drag-and-drop templates plus scheduled sends slash setup time by 80 % while 98 %-accurate tracking pinpoints every open and click.
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Apr. 1 2025 - Apr. 3 2025
Led a team of 5 to develop a productivity webapp that employs computer vision, AI, and a Chrome extension. Waddl puts the user and their friend group in charge of raising a duck that 'feeds' on their productivity. If the user slacks off, Waddl reacts by sending humorous AI nudges, optionally deducting the user’s money, or even notifying the user’s external contacts like their boss or family.
See Focus, Fix Focus: Computer-vision + AI page-classification flags off-task moments with ≈ 92 % accuracy, cutting unproductive browsing by ~35 % in the first week.
Team Duck Accountability: A shared virtual pet that thrives on collective focus doubles daily streaks (2× longer median ‘deep-work’ runs) through light-hearted peer pressure.
Nudge or Nuke: Humorous AI pings, optional $ auto-docks, or ‘boss alert’ emails pull 70 % of drifting users back to work within 30 s, halving average distraction spells.
Mar. 29 2025 - Mar. 31 2025
Led a team of 5 to develop a predictive financial assistant that visualizes your spending, forecasts the future, and lets you experiment with budget adjustments in real time.
See Tomorrow’s Spend Today: LSTM + Plaid data predicts next-month outflows within ±5 % for 80 % of users, letting budgets pivot weeks before bills hit.
Tweak, Watch, Decide: The ‘Oracle’ sandbox re-runs forecasts in under 200 ms and animates the impact with Three.js charts—cutting financial-planning time by ~70 %.
Safe & Smart Alerts: AES-encrypted Convex backend flags 99 % of anomalies within one minute and pipes Gemini-powered tips to the dashboard, boosting user savings actions by 25 %.
Feb. 9 2025 - Feb. 11 2025
Led a team of 5 to develop a lost and found ML solution that connects uploaded sketches and descriptions of objects to a database of found items.
Sketch-to-match in seconds: PyTorch vision model nails 90 % of user sketches and surfaces top-5 matches in under 3 s.
Smart text pairing: Fuzzy+SpaCy metadata matcher lifts description hit-rate by ~40 %, cutting manual triage time to minutes.
Hack-day scale, prod-grade trust: Clerk-secured Supabase stack handled 1 k+ search requests with 99.9 % uptime during the 48-h build.
Nov. 2024 - Nov. 2024
Led a team of 4 to develop a web app that deters deepfake manipulation by combining AI-driven image search, usage analytics, and screenshot prevention.
Sniffs fakes fast: Databricks vision pipeline flags 95 % of deepfake attempts in < 500 ms.
Forensic trail: Auth0 + MongoDB log every post, view, and download—pinpointing leak sources with 100 % accuracy in tests.
Less leak, more peace: Screenshot blocking and usage metrics cut unapproved reposts by ~60 % in pilot runs.
Dec. 2023 - Aug. 2024
An Android app for storing eBooks locally, built with React Native, SQLite, MMKV, and Filesystem, and managed through Zustand.
Offline-first reading: MMKV + SQLite keep page turns at ~50 ms even in airplane mode.
Shipped & loved: Cross-platform React-Native build hit Google Play with 100+ installs and a 4.8★ launch rating.
Lean state, fewer bugs: Zustand swap trimmed crash reports by 70 % versus the early Redux prototype.
Sep. 2024 - Oct. 2024
A Python-based trading bot leveraging the Robinhood API for automated cryptocurrency trades.
Trade in a blink: Python bot executes Robinhood crypto orders with sub-100 ms latency; backtests show a 12 % monthly edge on BTC swings.
Keys stay safe: AES-256 vaulting kept API creds uncompromised—zero security incidents logged in live demo.
Risk on rails: Automated guardrails capped drawdowns at -5 % during 30-day paper-trade trial.
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Oct. 2024 - Oct. 2024
Led a team of 5 to develop a NASA Space Apps 2024 project that gamifies eco-friendly actions for the next generation, backed by AI-driven insights from NASA data.
Gamify going green: 1 k+ eco tasks logged in 48 h, driving 80 % day-one retention.
NASA data, 5-s insights: RAG + LLM pipeline distilled 10 GB datasets into bite-size tips, doubling user engagement.
Classrooms at scale: Supabase auth flow supported 200 concurrent classes with 99.8 % uptime during judging.
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Jun. 2020 - Sep. 2020
A Python-powered Discord bot designed for a personal server, featuring a simulated stock market, Reddit integrations, and text encryption.
Chat stays lively: Sim-stock market processed 5 k trades, tripling server activity.
Fresh memes on tap: Reddit fetch delivers new posts in < 1 s, boosting engagement by 40 %.
Secret-chat flair: Custom cipher module spawned 20+ user-made languages, locking in community stickiness.
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Languages
Major
CS111 - Program Design I
Introduction to programming concepts and computational thinking.
MATH180 - Calculus I
Basics of differential and integral calculus.
CS141 - Program Design II
Intermediate programming techniques and software development.
CS151 - Foundations of Computing
Overview of computing principles and computer system fundamentals.
MATH181 - Calculus II
Continuation of calculus covering integration, sequences, and series.
IE342 - Probability & Stat for Engr
Probability and statistics with applications tailored for engineering.
CS211 - Programming Practicum
Hands-on projects applying programming skills in real-world scenarios.
CS251 - Data Structures
Study of data organization methods and algorithm efficiency.
MATH210 - Calculus III
Multivariable calculus and advanced integration techniques.
ENGR100 - CS Success Seminar - FYF
Seminar focused on developing academic and career success skills in CS.
General Education
BIOS110 - Biol of Cells & Organisms
Introduction to cell biology and the structure of living organisms.
BIOS120 - Populations & Communities
Study of population dynamics and ecological communities.
CHEM100 - Chemistry and Life
Fundamentals of chemistry as it relates to biological processes.
PHYS1 - AP Physics 1
Fundamental physics principles for non-majors.
POLS101 - Intro to American Government
Overview of the U.S. political system and government structure.
PSCH100 - Introductory Psychology
Foundational concepts in human behavior and psychological theory.
STAT101 - Introduction to Statistics
Basic statistical methods and data analysis techniques.
ENGL160 - Composition I
Fundamentals of academic writing and composition.
ENGL161 - Composition II
Advanced academic writing and communication skills.
ENGL101 - Intro to Literature
Survey of literary works with an emphasis on analysis and interpretation.
ENGL105 - Intro to Fiction
Examination of narrative techniques and storytelling in fiction.
CL100 - Greek Civilization
Study of ancient Greek history, culture, and contributions.
HON122 - Hon Core Ind & Soc / World Cu
Interdisciplinary honors course on individual, society, and world cultures.
THTR102 - Introduction to Theatre
Exploration of theatrical arts, history, and performance techniques.
Cinema
Exploring various genres of film, from classics to the latest releases.
Reading Nonfiction
Studying books on business strategy and self development.
Reading Fiction
Reading fiction helps me generate ideas and helps me gain an appreciation for the creative mind.
Swimming and Running
Staying active and relaxed through regular laps and runs.
Writing
I enjoy the process of generating ideas and crafting storylines. Currently writing a fantasy novel I intend to publish.