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2023 - Present
Founder & CEO
Nexel
San Francisco, CA
I founded Nexel, an AI platform automating compliance and back-office tasks for small businesses, securing $1M+ in VC funding from Jeff Weiner's firm (Next Play Ventures), Westbound Equity, and a group of exceptional angel investors. I built and led a multidisciplinary team of four, developed the first product version, and refined the business strategy through market research and customer feedback.
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2020 - 2023
Tech Lead/ Senior Software Engineer
Clockwise
San Francisco, CA
Clockwise is an AI-powered calendar assistant that helps teams by automatically scheduling meetings and protecting time for focused work. Joined when the company was 17 employees and helped it grow to ~100 employees by recruiting, interviewing and mentoring new teammates. I led teams and developed key features of Clockwise's product, including Clockwise Links, Flexible Calendar Holds, One-On-One Meeting Dashboard, and integrations with Asana and Slack, during a period of rapid user growth.
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2018 - 2020
Course Assistant/ Research Assistant
Stanford University
Stanford, CA
Assisted in teaching CS 221 (AI) and CS 124 (NLP), supporting 300+ students per quarter by leading discussion sections, holding office hours, and designing/grading assignments and exams.
Discovered and analyzed new examples of "polyperceivable" audio, revealing that over 2% of English words may exhibit this phenomenon, as detailed in our paper Beyond Laurel/Yanny: An Autoencoder-Enabled Search for Polyperceivable Audio. -
2015-2018
Software Engineer
Microsoft
Redmond, WA
Developed prototypes to validate next generation Windows applications. Led technical strategy for Mixed Reality Avatar services, and implemented a cloud-based rendering service for Xbox avatars serving millions.
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2019
Software Engineering Intern/ Kleiner Perkins Fellow
Coursera
Mountain View, CA
I spent the summer on the Learner team where I Implemented push notification infrastructure by migrating from long polling to webhooks and developed APIs for real-time course announcements.
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2014
Software Engineering Intern
Microsoft
Redmond, CA
Wrote code, learnt a lot, and left prod intact.
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2013
Software Engineering Intern
Microsoft
Redmond, WA
Rotated through PM, SWE, and SDET roles doing intern things.