About Me
Stuyvesant High School graduate. UATX alumni. Computer Science at Harvard College. Dropped out. Focused on doing the hardest thing at any given moment. Burn the bridges, sink the ships.
Projects
Anti-Scrapping Startup
Building a startup to prevent web scrapping
Simulating the Transition to Simple Multicellularity
Worked on modeling the transition from unicellularity to multicellularity in biological evolution, focusing on mechanisms like clustering, information sharing, and cooperation, and tests the model's robustness to noise in fitness optimization.
LSM Tree
Built an write-optimized LSM Tree database from scratch in C++
athena
A website that provides financial incentives for users to ask and answer Web3 development-related questions.
Passport
App that allows restaurants to build loyalty with customers through transferable NFT loyalty cards
- - Runner up for the $DESO prize at Miami Hack Week
DAOHub
App for DAO admins to solve the free-rider problem within their organizations by engaging with all members.
- - Hackathon project and winner for 8VC's $BUILD hackathon
LunchTime - Eat Together
App designed to help Harvard students eat together and check the menu
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Walki - Anything but Text
Social media app where users can only send 15 second voice messages
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Storefronts
Frontend for site that aggregates products from local sellers and connects them to local buyers
- - Private repository but sharable on request
Datacenter Fabric Simulator
C++ data fabric simulator to make it easier to identify network issues like bottlenecks
- - Optimized simulator through parallelization as compared to the usual serial simulators
- - Collaborated with graduate students from Harvard’s engineering school (SEAS)
- - Project for a graduate CS course I took freshman year
Room Locator
Website where students can get directions between classrooms and map out directions for their entire class schedule (i.e. GPS for Stuyvesant High School)
PoliTracker
Website that aggregates information (contact information, news, and sentiment) for political representatives in a zip code and allows users to follow their representatives
CRUD Database
CRUD (create, read, update, and delete) database in C
Mesh and Shape Graphics Engine
Graphics engine capable of creating certain meshes on objects (i.e. surface of 3D object) as well as 3D shapes like cones and spheres
Pac-Snake
Pac-man but Pac-man grows by one (like Snake) after eating a ghost
Latest Posts
Tools For Fighting The Data Monster
Guest Post on Counting Stuff (2/2)
The Big Bad Data Monster
Guest Post on Counting Stuff (1/2)
Meta-Strategies
Repeatable business success
Simply Writing, Writing Simply
Just writing.
Risk vs. Reward
Why don't we maximize risk?
Experience
AccelerateSF
Developer, September 2023 - December 2023
- - Hackathon building AI solutions for SF's public sector challenges
Eric Newcomer
Contractor, May 2023 -
- - Building features to improve Newcomer's sourcing and newsletter creation processes
General Catalyst (CVF Team)
Open-source Software Developer, May 2023 - December 2023
- - Building internal tooling to better manage and profile data pipelines with Panda Patrol
- - More details
Various Startups
Freelance Developer (Remote), February 2022 - May 2022
- - More specific details upon request
Amazon
Software Development Engineer I Intern (Remote), May 2021 - July 2021
Amazon
Software Development Engineer I Intern (Remote), June 2020 - August 2020
Skills
Web Development Languages & Frameworks
Python, Flask, Django, Typescript, Javascript, Node.js, Express, React, Mocha, Chai, Sinon, Java, Spring Framework, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, HTML, and CSS
Mobile Development Languages & Frameworks
React Native, SwiftUI, and Swift
Databases
MongoDB, MySQL, and GraphQL
Other Technologies
Docker, Localstack, Firebase, Google Cloud, Twilio, JSON Web Tokens, Stripe, and Amazon Web Services
Design
Figma and Adobe Suite
Other
HBS Online CORe Credential of Readiness
Past Books (From Jul 2022 onwards)
The Master and Margarita
A very magical book. Fantastical.
Atlas Shrugged
The importance of the individual + mind. Capitalism. Value creation as a means of life creation. Physical manifestations of creativity that generate value for others. Life is necessarily harder than death.
The Creative Act: A Way of Being (Audiobook)
Be an artist. Self. Understand the waves and harmony of the universe.
Elon Musk
Surge and then surge some more.
Make Something Wonderful
Fear pales in the face of death.
Thinking in Systems: A Primer
Take a step back. See the bigger picture. Everything is connected. Systems run the world.
Unscaled: How AI and a New Generation of Upstarts Are Creating the Economy of the Future
Market of 1.
God and Gold
Global system of capitalism and democracy. Individualism/Free play + capitalism = powerful blend.
The Inner Game of Tennis
It's always a mental game.
Man's Search for Meaning
Basically how I see meaning in life. Quotes to live by. There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings. The way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails ... gives him ample oppurtunity ... to add a deeper meaning to his life. He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how. Responsibleness the very essence of human existence. Live my thoughts instead of putting them on paper. Doesn't the final meaning of life, too, reveal itself, if at all, only at its end, on the verge of death. A man who removes each successive leaf from his calendar and files it neatly and carefully away.
Stranger in a Strange Land
Outside looking in. Inside looking out. Political statement about religion. Weird component about religion at the end. Grokking. Age does not bring wisdom but it does give perspective.
Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World
Empathy. Venice and Athen intellectual environments. Address the confidence crisis. Enhance the productivity curve.
Presidential Leadership and the Creation of the American Era
The illusion of a perfect leader. Necessity to consider what is needed in the context of the time
The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Wartime vs peace time founder. The importance of the team, product, market, timing, and founder. Dealing with the invisible challenges (including emotional and psychological).
Pachinko
Push and Pull of Being Different and Excluded
Hacking Growth: How Today's Fastest-Growing Companies Drive Breakout Success
Data, Data, Data. Iterate, Iterate, Iterate.
Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Handbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell
Bring love into your work and truly love the people you work with.
Favorite Movies 🎞
The Dark Knight Rises
Django Unchained
Tenet
Green Book
Good Will Hunting
The Social Network
Inception
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Imitation Game
Miscellaneous
Five Boro Bike Tour
Biked through all five boroughs of New York City. 40 miles. Zooming through the streets of NYC.
Martha's Vineyard Half-Marathon
Ran my first half-marathon. The first of many. Gotta get faster first.
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