Work Experience

Developer Advocate
AssemblyAI • May 2025 - July 2025
At AssemblyAI, I:
- Led go-to-market for voice agent builders through hackathons, demos, and platform integrations - dogfooded streaming API to hundreds via Vapi collaboration
- Grew developer ecosystem via Discord, social media, and partnerships while leading newsletter read by 200,000+ developers
- Maintained developer content across YouTube, docs, and educational resources aligned with competitive positioning
- Built real-time demos showcasing low-latency streaming API advantages for speed and accuracy

Developer Relations Engineer
Airbyte • October 2024 - May 2025
At Airbyte, I led developer advocacy initiatives that empowered engineers across the data and AI ecosystem to build sophisticated data pipelines. As a part of my role, I
- Architected AI demo applications that reduced implementation time from weeks to minutes using vector databases, RAG, and LLM integrations
- Led in-person workshops that converted 30% of attendees into daily active users on our cloud platform
- Created reference applications enabling engineers to launch AI pipelines in minutes with Python and Next.js
- Conducted technical meetups resulting in 400+ signups and measurable platform adoption
- Authored technical blog posts and end-to-end coding tutorials that generated thousands of views and reached 10K+ monthly developers
- Designed optimized data workflows that processed structured and unstructured data with minimal configuration

Software Developer
BlackRock - Aladdin Product Group • Aug 2022 - September 2024
As part of the Aladdin team at BlackRock, I contributed to building and maintaining their end-to-end investment management and operations platform. Specifically, I
- Integrated gRPC framework to streamline client-server interactions for an internal messaging system, optimizing communication for 15+ Aladdin Engineering software teams.
- Built & maintained 20+ Spring Boot microservices to refine cash allocation logic in rebalanced ETF baskets, increasing liquidity and improving financial outcomes.
- Implemented a proof of concept using LangChain, OpenAI's API and basic RAG to give context-based responses regarding internal brokerage documents.
- Product Management Rotation: Served as a key liaison between developers and ETF portfolio managers, streamlining feature prioritization and technical explanations, reducing daily meetings by 20% daily.
Projects
Side Projects
iPaaS Chatbot
Built a LlamaIndex RAG chatbot in Next.js to connect to your Google Drive and Slack, ingesting certain documents using iPaaS tools (integration).
View on GitHubMoodMatch
An app that infers a person's music taste from their Spotify library and liked songs, then suggests music based on mood preferences and keywords typed in. Uses RAG to create personalized recommendations.
View on GitHubReverie
A journaling app that takes into consideration your personality traits through a series of quizzes and gives you insights based on metrics associating them with themes in your entries.
View on GitHubPassion Projects
doctors.fyi
Built an app for doctors to use AI scribes with voice-to-text dictation software that incorporates ICD-10 and CPT codes for improved accuracy in EMR system notes, leading to fewer billing and coding errors.
View on GitHubOpen Mics in San Francisco
Performing at local venues for guitar and singing. Regularly participate in the vibrant San Francisco music scene, sharing original compositions and covers at community gatherings.